SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS 是一本国际多学科期刊，致力于探索与科学和工程相关的伦理问题，涵盖专业教育、研究和实践以及技术创新和研究成果对社会的影响。而该期刊的重点是科学欢迎来自包括社会科学和人文科学在内的广泛学科的贡献。感兴趣的领域包括但不限于新兴技术的伦理学、研究伦理学、计算机伦理学、能源伦理学、动物和人类学科伦理学、科学和工程伦理学教育、设计伦理学、生物医学伦理学、技术价值观和创新。我们欢迎从国际角度处理这些问题的贡献，特别是来自在这些讨论中代表性不足的国家的贡献。

Science and Engineering Ethics is an international multidisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring ethical issues related to science and engineering. The journal covers professional education, research and practice, as well as the societal impacts of technological innovations and research outcomes. We welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplines, including social sciences and humanities, with a particular focus on the ethics of emerging technologies, research ethics, computer ethics, energy ethics, ethics in animal and human sciences, science and engineering ethics education, design ethics, biomedical ethics, and the values and innovations in technology. The journal encourages contributions that address these issues from an international perspective, especially from countries that are underrepresented in these discussions.

《Science and Engineering Ethics》是一本国际多学科期刊，专注于探讨与科学和工程相关的伦理问题。期刊涵盖专业教育、研究与实践，以及技术创新和研究成果对社会的影响。我们欢迎来自包括社会科学和人文科学在内的广泛学科的贡献，特别关注新兴技术的伦理学、研究伦理学、计算机伦理学、能源伦理学、动物和人类学科伦理学、科学与工程伦理学教育、设计伦理学、生物医学伦理学、技术价值观和创新等领域。期刊鼓励从国际视角探讨这些问题，尤其是来自在这些讨论中代表性不足国家的贡献。

Science and Engineering Ethics

This article highlights the limitations of the tendency to frame health- and wellbeing-related digital tools (mHealth technologies) as empowering devices, especially as they play an increasingly important role in the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. It argues that mHealth technologies should instead be framed as digital companions. This shift from empowerment to companionship is advocated by showing the conceptual, ethical, and methodological issues challenging the narrative of empowerment, and by arguing that such challenges, as well as the risk of medical paternalism, can be overcome by focusing on the potential for mHealth tools to mediate the relationship between recipients of clinical advice and givers of clinical advice, in ways that allow for contextual flexibility in the balance between patiency and agency. The article concludes by stressing that reframing the narrative cannot be the only means for avoiding harm caused to the NHS as a healthcare system by the introduction of mHealth tools. Future discussion will be needed on the overarching role of responsible design.

Jessica Morley

Luciano Floridi

Sci Eng Ethics

The Limits of Empowerment: How to Reframe the Role of mHealth Tools in the Healthcare Ecosystem

赋权的局限：如何重构移动医疗工具在医疗生态系统中的角色

We describe the ongoing citations to biomedical articles affected by scientific misconduct, and characterize the papers that cite these affected articles. The citations to 102 articles named in official findings of scientific misconduct during the period of 1993 and 2001 were identified through the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database. Using a stratified random sampling strategy, we performed a content analysis of 603 of the 5,393 citing papers to identify indications of awareness that the cited articles affected by scientific misconduct had validity issues, and to examine how the citing papers referred to the affected articles. Fewer than 5% of citing papers indicated any awareness that the cited article was retracted or named in a finding of misconduct. We also tested the hypothesis that affected articles would have fewer citations than a comparison sample; this was not supported. Most articles affected by misconduct were published in basic science journals, and we found little cause for concern that such articles may have affected clinical equipoise or clinical care.

Anne Victoria Neale

Rhonda K. Dailey

Judith Abrams

Analysis of Citations to Biomedical Articles Affected by Scientific Misconduct

科学不端行为影响下的生物医学文章引用分析

Scholars in science and technology studies (STS) have recently been called upon to advise governments on the design of procedures for public engagement. Any such instrumental function should be carried out consistently with STS's interpretive and normative obligations as a social science discipline. This article illustrates how such threefold integration can be achieved by reviewing current US participatory politics against a 70-year backdrop of tacit constitutional developments in governing science and technology. Two broad cycles of constitutional adjustment are discerned: the first enlarging the scope of state action as well as public participation, with liberalized rules of access and sympathetic judicial review; the second cutting back on the role of the state, fostering the rise of an academic-industrial complex for technology transfer, and privatizing value debates through increasing delegation to professional ethicists. New rules for public engagement in the United Sates should take account of these historical developments and seek to counteract some of the anti-democratic tendencies observable in recent decades.

Sheila Jasanoff

Science and engineering ethics

Constitutional moments in governing science and technology.

治理科学与技术的宪法时刻。

Abstract We introduce the Bias Network Approach (BNA) as a sociotechnical method for AI developers to identify, map, and relate biases across the AI development process. This approach addresses the limitations of what we call the "isolationist approach to AI bias," a trend in AI literature where biases are seen as separate occurrences linked to specific stages in an AI pipeline. Dealing with these multiple biases can trigger a sense of excessive overload in managing each potential bias individually or promote the adoption of an uncritical approach to understanding the influence of biases in developers’ decision-making. The BNA fosters dialogue and a critical stance among developers, guided by external experts, using graphical representations to depict biased connections. To test the BNA, we conducted a pilot case study on the "waiting list” project, involving a small AI developer team creating a healthcare waiting list NPL model in Chile. The analysis showed promising findings: (i) the BNA aids in visualizing interconnected biases and their impacts, facilitating ethical reflection in a more accessible way; (ii) it promotes transparency in decision-making throughout AI development; and (iii) more focus is necessary on professional biases and material limitations as sources of bias in AI development.

Gabriela Arriagada-Bruneau

Claudia López

Alexandra Davidoff

A Bias Network Approach (BNA) to Encourage Ethical Reflection Among AI Developers

一种鼓励人工智能开发者进行伦理反思的偏差网络方法（BNA）

The moral status of human brain organoids (HBOs) has been debated in view of the future possibility that they may acquire phenomenal consciousness. This study empirically investigates the moral sensitivity in people's intuitive judgments about actions toward conscious HBOs. The results showed that the presence/absence of pain experience in HBOs affected the judgment about the moral permissibility of actions such as creating and destroying the HBOs; however, the presence/absence of visual experience in HBOs also affected the judgment. These findings suggest that people's intuitive judgments about the moral status of HBOs are sensitive to the valence-independent value of phenomenal consciousness. We discuss how these observations can have normative implications; particularly, we argue that they put pressure on the theoretical view that the moral status of conscious HBOs is grounded solely in the valence-dependent value of consciousness. We also discuss how our findings can be informative even when such a theoretical view is finally justified or when the future possibility of conscious HBOs is implausible.

Koji Ota

Tetsushi Tanibe

Takumi Watanabe

Kazuki Iijima

Mineki Oguchi

Moral Intuition Regarding the Possibility of Conscious Human Brain Organoids: An Experimental Ethics Study

关于有意识人类脑类器官的道德直觉：一项实验伦理学研究

Justin L. Hess

Elizabeth Sanders

Grant A. Fore

Martin Coleman

Mary Price

Samuel Cornelius Nyarko

Brandon Sorge

Correction: Transforming Ethics Education Through a Faculty Learning Community: “I’m Coming Around to Seeing Ethics as Being Maybe as Important as Calculus”

更正：通过教师学习社区转变伦理教育：“我开始认为伦理可能与微积分同样重要”

Abstract AgeTech refers to a growing sector that is advancing the use of technologies, such as information and communication technologies (ICTs), mobile technologies, robotics, wearables and smart home systems to enhance the lives of older adults. Although AgeTech can be seen as an opportunity for empowering older people and enhance their overall quality of life, crucial ethical issues have to be addressed. The articles in this topical collection focus on these and other ethical questions, particularly in respect to key emerging technologies of AI and robotics. The overall aim is to explore the multifaceted ethical landscape of emerging AgeTech and to provide frameworks and strategies for ethically-appropriate technologies that support the health, well-being, and quality of life of older adults.

Giovanni Rubeis

Andrew Sixsmith

Editorial: Topical Collection “Ethical and Societal Implications of AgeTech”

编者按：专题合集“AgeTech的伦理与社会影响”

Abstract Can technology resolve social problems by reducing them to engineering challenges? In the 1960s, Alvin Weinberg answered yes, popularizing the term “techno-fix” in the process. The concept was immediately criticized and over time evolved into a disparaging term—a synonym for unrealistic technological proposals and their advocates. As the debate progressed, skepticism grew to include condemnation of a related term: “techno-solutionism.” Despite extensive criticism, both “techno-fix” and “techno-solutionism” remain ill-defined concepts. In this article, we provide more precise definitions and clearly distinguish between techno-fixes and techno-solutionism through conceptual engineering. By refining these concepts, we aim to advance the discussion and lay the groundwork for more productive analyses of the role of technology in solving social problems.

Henrik Skaug Sætra

Evan Selinger

Technological Remedies for Social Problems: Defining and Demarcating Techno-Fixes and Techno-Solutionism

社会问题的技术解决方案：界定与区分技术修复和技术解决方案主义

Abbreviation	Sci Eng Ethics
Journal Impact	2.89
Quartiles(Global)	MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES(Q2)

ISSN	1353-3452, 1471-5546
h-index	74
Top Journals	Yes

Publication Information	Publisher: Springer Netherlands，Publishing cycle: Quarterly，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 1995，Proportion of original research papers: 95.24%，Self Citation Rate:3.70%， Gold OA Rate: 64.46%
Average review cycle	网友分享经验：>12周，或约稿
Average recruitment ratio	网友分享经验：容易

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The Limits of Empowerment: How to Reframe the Role of mHealth Tools in the Healthcare Ecosystem

Analysis of Citations to Biomedical Articles Affected by Scientific Misconduct

Constitutional moments in governing science and technology.

A Bias Network Approach (BNA) to Encourage Ethical Reflection Among AI Developers

Moral Intuition Regarding the Possibility of Conscious Human Brain Organoids: An Experimental Ethics Study

Moral Intuition Regarding the Possibility of Conscious Human Brain Organoids: An Experimental Ethics Study

A Bias Network Approach (BNA) to Encourage Ethical Reflection Among AI Developers

Correction: Transforming Ethics Education Through a Faculty Learning Community: “I’m Coming Around to Seeing Ethics as Being Maybe as Important as Calculus”

Editorial: Topical Collection “Ethical and Societal Implications of AgeTech”

Technological Remedies for Social Problems: Defining and Demarcating Techno-Fixes and Techno-Solutionism