Program in Science, Technology and Society

Making Choices

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Making Choices

Making Choices was a collaborative effort between faculty and students at Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and Brown University.

Ethical Awareness in International Collaborations: A Contextual Approach

The central premise of the Making Choices project was to train international researchers to recognize the cultural “situatedness” of making ethical choices, and the global and cross-cultural contexts for ethical decision-making. It examined ethics across a very broad range of situations, using the perspectives of social science, humanities and the sciences. The course and its materials were created with the support of a National Science Foundation grant.

Videoconference between Brown and Zhejiang universities
Videoconference between Brown and Zhejiang universities

A Framework for Making Ethical Decisions

Decisions about right and wrong permeate everyday life. Ethics should concern all levels of life: acting properly as individuals, creating responsible organizations and governments, and making our society as a whole more ethical.

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Participants

  • Sheila Bonde is Professor and Chair of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
  • Clyde Briant is Professor of Engineering and Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown University.
  • Paul Firenze received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University and is currently a Post-doctoral Research Associate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown.
  • Julianne Hanavan is Director of Research Ethics and Education Policy at Brown University.
  • Amy Huang is a doctoral candidate in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University.
  • Min Li is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Office of International Relations at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China.
  • N.C. Narayanan is Associate Professor in the Centre for Technology Alternatives for Rural Areas at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
  • D. Parthasarathy is Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Science at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
  • Hongqin Zhou is Associate Professor of Education in the School of International Studies at Zhejiang University.