Institute of Philosophy & Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, Leibniz University Hannover, Im Moore 21, 30167, Hannover, Germany.
Hist Philos Life Sci. 2020 Nov 3;42(4):53. doi: 10.1007/s40656-020-00348-5.
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic constituted a crisis situation in which science was very far from Kitcher's ideal of well-ordered science. I suggest that this could and should have been different. Kitcher's ideal should play a role in assessing the allocation of research resources in future crisis situations, as it provides a way to balance highly divergent interests and incorporate the common good into decision-making processes on research.
SARS-CoV-2 大流行构成了一场危机,而在这场危机中,科学离基彻所设想的有序科学相去甚远。我认为,情况本可以而且也应该有所不同。在评估未来危机情况下的研究资源分配时,基彻的理想应该发挥作用,因为它为平衡高度不同的利益提供了一种方式,并将共同利益纳入研究决策过程中。