The Ethics of Science Communication - Opening Keynote with Heather Douglas

Our opening keynote with Heather Douglas, author and professor, shares what it means to consider the role of social and ethical values in science and the responsibility of science communicators.

For more information on our 2023 Symposium: The Ethics of Science Communication, including the slide presentation from this keynote, a curated list of resources, speaker bios, and more, go to https://institutesymposium.dmns.org/.

Heather Douglas is a philosopher of science best known for her work on the role of social and ethical values in science and science policy, the relationship between science and democracy, and science communication. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University and the author of dozens of articles and essays, several edited collections, The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values, and Democracy (2021), and Science, Policy and the Value-Free Ideal (2009), an influential book on how values do and should influence science in the policy context. She is a fellow of the Institute for Science, Society, and Policy at the University of Ottawa, and in 2016, she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.