Meta Science and Technology Research Project: Comprehensive Research on Method, Ethics and Policy

Abstract

Professor Tsuyoshi Matsuda is part of a team, based within the Organisation for Advanced and Integrated Research at Kobe University in Japan, which is researching methods, ethics and policies. The study emphasises the methods of inquiry and normals of value, as well as the political and economic factors that define modern science and technology. By combining the various methodologies that scientists use in their search and justification of ‘scientific truth’ that form the basis of science and technology research with ethical and legal issues, the team is hopeful that it will be possible to incorporate the research results into the curriculum of common education for graduate schools and faculties in the future.