This collection focuses on virtue theory and the ethics of social science research. A moral philosophy that has been relatively neglected in the domain of research ethics, virtue ethics has much to offer those who wish to go beyond the difficulties generated by the biomedical model of research ethics and positively engage with the ethics of social scientific research. As the chapters contained in this volume show, the perspective provided by virtue ethics also exhibits a certain affinity with the emerging discourse regarding research integrity. Contributors develop various facets of virtue ethics in order to illuminate a range of issues in the practice and governance of social science, including integrity, the ethics of ethical review, ethics education, and the notion of phronesis (wisdom).

About the Author
Nathan Emmerich is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Ethics, Dublin City University and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of History, Anthropology, Politics and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast.

Reviews
Social scientists explore issues around ethics in social science research, pivoting on the virtue ethics that the West has inherited from ancient Greece in general and Aristotle in particular. They cover virtue and integrity, virtue and the review/governance of research, and phronesis in its practice/conduct and review/governance. The topics include cultivating researcher integrity: virtue-based approaches to research ethics, whether virtue ethics can help the professional integrity of social science researchers, virtue ethics in the practice and review of social science research: the virtuous ethics committee, and the ethical regulation of social research versus the cultivation of phronesis. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *



Book Information
ISBN 9781787146082
Author Nathan Emmerich
Format Hardback
Page Count 248
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited