Value Oriented Science for A Sustainable Society

• Authors: Mikuláš Huba
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay deals with the relationship between ethics, science and the character of society associated with challenges such as: What is the contemporary role of science in society and how does it fulfil it? Is value oriented "engaged" science possible? What does the responsibility of science mean? What is the reason for and the state of integrative, interdisciplinary, cross-disciplinary and/or post-disciplinary approaches in the science? What is the role and meaning of evaluation in scientific production and/or its usefulness? What is the value, cost and effectiveness of science? Is scientometrics an adequate answer? What is the role of ethics and science in the context of sustainable development/living/society? In the final section of the essay several examples drawing on the international as well as the national level are introduced. The ambition of the author, a professional environmental geographer, is not to submit an extensive excursion into most fashionable aspects of the topic within the global philosophical context. The author describes his own personal experience and position and tries to discover what the emerging challenges and threats in this field may be, first of all in the current Slovak context.

Keywords

EN

science; ethics; values; responsibility; society; sustainability; (self)evaluation; international initiatives/documents; Slovakia; Skolimowski; Vavroušek

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 408-420

Dates

published

2009-12-01

online

2009-12-23

Contributors

author

Mikuláš Huba

• Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0053-5