科技與人文價值研究中心網站

The Center for Science, Technology and Human Values aims to promote integrated basic research on ethical, legal and social issues arising from governmental policies that are designed to enhance scientific research and development in Taiwan. Important human values are often at stake in debates over such issues, and the Center will be devoted to supporting basic research that aims to clarify the values at stake and to provide theoretical underpinnings for them. It is hoped that the Center's endeavors can help to make public debates in Taiwan on the relevant ethical, legal and social issues more rational and in greater accord with the ideal of fairness that is to govern a pluralist democratic society in its search for consensus over these debates. The Center will also be devoted to exploring and recommending public policies that adequately address the ethical, legal and social issues involved. To achieve these goals, the Center proposes to focus as its main theme on the relation between development of science and technology on the one hand, and values that underlie our social life or political culture on the other. Under this main theme, the Center will promote basic research on more specific topics as follows:
1. Contemporary society and public values:
To achieve these goals, the Center proposes to focus as its main theme on the relation between development of science and technology on the one hand, and values that underlie our social life or political culture on the other. Under this main theme, the Center will promote basic research on more specific topics as follows:
2. Traditional views on human values, and their historical development:
We will investigate traditional views on human values, and traditional ways of life that are characteristic of Chinese culture, together with the transformation and expression of these traditional views and ways of life in the modern world. We will further explore possible impacts the development of science and technology in recent times will bring on these traditional views and ways of life, and how these impacts may be confronted through appropriate public policies.
3. Religion and society:
We will investigate different conceptions of the good life as supported by different religions, and conflicts that these different conceptions may give rise to in public debates on moral issues surrounding recent development of science and technology. We will further explore whether and, if so, how such conflicts can be resolved through values transcending religious boundaries, or through mechanisms of public deliberation that are compatible with political values essential to a pluralist democratic society.