08.04.2025

Freedom that is meant how exactly? Defining the relationship between freedom and responsibility in current debates on science and ethics

New blog article by Prof. Dr. Thomas Potthast

“Freedom” is often contrasted with ‘ethics’ in science as if there were a zero-sum game: More of one means less of the other. Such ideas can even be found in contexts that otherwise provide extremely important impulses for current debates on academic freedom. Instead of halving both a meaningful concept of freedom and ethics, the dialectical enabling function of ethics for freedom (in) science should be emphasized.

To the blog article: https://uni-tuebingen.de/de/279861