VEDA, HISTORIOGRAFIA A ETIKA

• Authors: Kováč Dušan

Title variants

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Science, historiography and ethics

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The introductory paper from the conference of the Slovak historical community, “History, historiography and ethics” is devoted to general questions of the relationship between ethics and science with regard to the specifics of historiography. The relationship between science and ethics can be perceived in two ways: on the gnoseological – methodological level and on the level of the subjective morality of the scientist as the researcher. On the gnoseological – methodological level, ethics connect directly with the essence of human knowledge and its limits. However, the really important thing is the position of the individual scientist. Ethical problems are connected with mistakes and the willingness to admit mistakes and work with different hypotheses. In science, however, results of research are often falsified. Evidence or sources in the case of historiography are manipulated. Scientometrics, the question of the accessibility of the results of scientific research, but also ideology and unwillingness to see the wider social and moral impacts of scientific research are further problems in the relationship between science and ethics.

Keywords

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HISTORIOGRAPHY; ETHICS; KNOWLEDGE; SCIENCE; SCIENTOMETRICS

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 64
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 579 – 586

Contributors

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Kováč Dušan

• Historický ústav SAV, P. O. BOX 198, 814 99 Bratislava, Klemensova 19, Slovak Republic