Research groups

Contemporary science is replete with ethical and political issues ranging from the internal dynamics of extended research teams, the use of scientific expertise to shape social policies, to the manipulation of human beings and the environment. The Research Ethics Work-group gathers philosophers, pedagogists, psychologists, and sociologists with the aim of elaborating a multidisciplinary and integrated perspective of the impact of the process of scientific knowledge production on our society and culture at large. The work-group consists in the following research lines: systematic survey on ethical dilemmas, the epistemological dynamics of research groups, the ethical posture of research actors in addressing the challenges arising from a growing complexity, regimes of truth and the production of scientific data, ethics of writing, educating to research integrity, the relation between research and participants: dyna-mics of power and positioning in data construction.