Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center (Nick Gonzales/UC Santa Cruz) Sociology Professor Jenny Reardon, founding director of the ...

Centers at UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge will train scientists to be aware of the ethical and societal impacts of scientific discoveries and to engage the public in early and intentional ...

In April 2019, Santa Clara University was awarded a grant as one of the winners of the Mozilla Responsible Computer Science Challenge, which promotes innovation and experimentation in the integration ...

Organoids are bits of neural tissue that model human brain development. Their use in science makes some uneasy, in part because the brain is so closely tied to our sense of self.

What would happen if human brain cells were injected into primates. such as monkeys or apes? Scientists are now researching that question, as well as the ethics of the possibility of cognitive ...

"You're OK with doing business with evil people, right?" One of Australia's leading venture capital advisers had asked me that question back when the first dotcom bubble was about to burst, in the ...

The previous post discussed insights of motivational science that are critical for influencing human behavior. This post will consider how these insights can be applied to the field of ethics ...

Jeff Kampfe is a senior at Santa Clara University. In 2018-2019, as a Hackworth Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, he interviewed six experts on the subject of data ethics. The ...

Humans really enjoy inventing things. Each day, medical researchers hunt for new treatments for disease, bioengineers work to create malaria-resistant mosquitoes and rot-resistant crops, computer ...

The previous post in my Ethics 2.0 column presented the scientific case that people have a capacity for ethical behavior. Under suitable circumstances people are quite capable and willing to conform ...