Team:KU Leuven/Human Practices/Bottom Up Philosopher

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Latest revision as of 01:05, 29 October 2013

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  • A video shows that two of our team members are having great fun at our favourite company. Do you know the name of the second member that appears in the video?
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New additional approach: Bottom-up or ethics from within!

The top-down structure sometimes fails because scientist get the feeling that they do not get the proper recognition and they feel restricted by laws and regulations. Therefore a philosophy student joined the KU Leuven iGEM team to develop a new approach for human practices. This unique collaboration resulted in an extensive approach.

The different parts of this approach are:
The blog: We wrote a blog to give regular scientists a better understanding of ethics.
Psychoanalysis: Here used as a tool to come to terms with synthetic biology as an important component of the current scientific revolution.
Interviews: All team members and their supervisors were interviewed to get a better understanding of their ethical beliefs with regard to synthetic biology and our project.

Click anywhere on the picture:

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The blog

Become an instant ethics expert

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis & synthetic biology

Interviews

Ethics from our point of view