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Science and Research Ethics
13 - 15 March 2019
Lecturer: Alexander Christian
What is ethics of science? What is scientific freedom and the role of science in society? EvoPAD PhD students now completed a seminar focussing on these questions supplemented by detailed case studies on e.g. CRISPR/Cas9 and heritable human genome editing, climate change and climate change denial, anti-vaccinationism, and creationism & Intelligent Design. The 3-day programme was taught by Alexander Christian from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Düsseldorf.