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KMID : 1011120090030030265
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Bioethics Policy Studies
2009 Volume.3 No. 3 p.265 ~ p.288
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The compatible relationship between animal ethics and scientific creativity: Focusing on several cases in ethnology
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Ha Dae-Cheong
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Abstract
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How can the attention to bioethics be compatible with the pursue of scientific creativity and productivity? In this article, I explore the possibility of this compatibility through the redefinition of scientific practices. The dominant discourses in animal ethics haven’t taken scientific practices into account seriously even if it contributed much to understanding animal rights. I examine major points made by STS scholars, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers and Vincianne Despret, Donna Haraway, which I call ‘practical epistemology.’ From those works, I try to reconfigure what scientific practices really are and should be, which is summarized as these four themes; (1) From representation to re-presentation (2) from ‘disinterested’ to ‘interesting’ (3) from ‘true’ to ‘articulated’ (4) from judges to care-takers. And then I show that these themes in this practical epistemology apply well to several researches in ethology, such as McClintock’s study of rat, Rowell’s sheep, Pepperberg’s parrot. I also argue that this practical epistemology can channel animal ethics into its adjustment toward the attention to scientific practices, becomings of animals and humans, companionship between them. Most important, thanks to this practical epistemology, one doesn’t have to only choose between ethics and science but can choose both. In the end, I introduce my personal experience of an animal research in a laboratory and carefully suggest that animal ethics in the context of invasive animal researches can also obtain some insight from this practical epistemology.
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KEYWORD
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animal ethics, scientific creativity, compatibility of ethics and science, practical epistemology, ethology
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