The ELSA of NorZymeD

How can ELSA work be beneficial to NorZymeD?

    • Identifying and resolving concrete ethical and legal issues
    • Formulating and discussing the social value of NorZymeD
    • Providing an opportunity for everyone to discuss broader topics
    • Making the project «better»??
    • To promote scientific robustness, scientists should strive for a critical/sceptical/agnostic attitude towards factual claims
    • To promote social robustness, ELSA research should adopt a critical/sceptical/agnostic attitude towards scientists’ value claims
    • Main work approach: discussion
    • Focus on process; considerable freedom
     
Published 13. December 2017 - 11:09 - Updated 27. April 2018 - 10:49

 

Interview (in Norwegian) with NorZymeD's ELSA expert, prof. Roger Strand, Univ of Bergen:

What is ELSA?

 

 

 

 

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  • A 21st century view of science must not only embrace the wider societal context, but be prepared for the context to begin to talk back.
  • Reliable knowledge will no longer suffice, at least in those cases, where the consensuality reached within the scientific community will fail to impress those outside.
  • In a 21st century view of science, more will be demanded from science: a decisive shift towards a more extended notion of scientific knowledge, namely a shift towards socially robust or context-sensitive knowledge.                     (Helga Nowotny 1999)

 

  • Context of discovery: novel
  • Context of justification: valid
  • Context of application: safe
  • Context of implication: robust

(H. Nowotny, P. Scott & M. Gibbons: Re-Thinking Science, Polity 2001)