Construction of the educational program for learning the role of value judgments in science

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25350223
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Science education
• Research Institution: Hokkaido University
• Principal Investigator: Matsuo Masahiro 北海道大学, 理学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (60333499)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): EMORI Seita 国立環境研究所, 地球環境研究センター, 室長 (80300846) ; YUKIMATSU Yasuhiro 文部科学省, 研究振興局基礎研究振興課, 課長 (90646994)
• Research Collaborator: OZAKI Yuuki ; NIIRO Mimi ; AIBA Takehiro ; Homma Masato ; Kusano Genya ; Kanda Akari
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 科学と価値判断 / 科学と価値中立問題 / 科学基礎論教育 / 研究倫理

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is aimed at revealing value judgments contained in scientific procedures from the vantage point of philosophy of science and developing an educational program for science students to learn them and to be able to apply them to their scientific research. We surveyed and summarized the main debates on value judgments in philosophy of science, and revealed how these arguments are in fact concerned with the value judgments made by regulatory scientists, seismologists, or climatologists. As a result of them, we published papers and gave papers at several conferences. Based upon these, we finally developed an educational program which consists of 15 lectures, and conducted the classes as a course in the school of science, Hokkaido University.

Free Research Field

科学哲学