Venue: Emmy Noether Seminar Room
Class Timings: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
First Meeting: 12 August 2024
Course Description:
Frameworks useful in analysis of ethical problems.
Ethical misconduct involving fabrication, falsification of data as well as writing useless papers
Our ethical commitments to rest of scientific community. This involves an array of topics including authorship, citation, plagiarism, mentorship, conflicts of interest, confidentiality in peer review, etc
Scientists role in a society with some special attention to the Indian context (diversity issues within scientific community, interactions with society, approach towards superstition and pseudo-science and the impact of political, religious and socio-economic ideologies on scientific research, etc).
- Recognize, detect and avoid plagiarism, falsification and data fabrication as well as understand the importance of good documentation practices in fostering independent/critical thinking.
- Identify and tackle ethical issues arising in the context of authorship, mentorship, collaboration and peer-review using both value-based and rule-based approaches.
- Articulate the social responsibilities of scientific practice and understand the conflicts of interest arising from personal, institutional, political and corporate commitments, and comprehend the responsibilities towards the environment, living subjects etc., as well as recognize and tackle ethical issues due to social inequalities.
- Teacher: Loganayagam R