期刊名称：Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN：1433-5158
出版年度：2016
卷号：22
期号：1
页码：1-8
出版社：HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要：Perhaps more so than ever, chemical know-how is in demand for providingsolutions to many global issues, including the protection of the natural environment,healthcare, nutrition for a growing world population, water treatment,energy production, waste treatment, and the development of recyclableresources. Rather than just doing chemistry in the lab, chemists are requiredto engage with other disciplines and with society at large to work together onmanaging these issues. Of course, real life solutions are never as simple asthose for crossword puzzles. They always involve various advantages anddisadvantages, improvements and drawbacks, opportunities and risks, to bediscussed and balanced against each other. Thereby chemists are inevitablyinvolved in disputes about values. They would badly fail if they were notprepared to reflect on the values, develop and analyze moral and politicalarguments, build moral judgments and perform responsible actions, all ofwhich belong to the domain of ethics.
