Abstract
With this project, we want to investigate the hypothesis that reflecting on the challenges and questions raised by epigenetics can shed some light on the current discussions on environmental ethics issues. Specifically, we will focus on whether technological solutions are an adequate response to environmental crises and whether environmental responsibility should be understood as primary an individual or a collective endeavor, or that we have to abandon dualistic thinking about the concept of responsibility itself. As we believe that ethical reflection on responsibility concepts also entails investigation of intuitions regarding responsibility, the project also entails an empirical part. We investigate values and intuitions regarding responsibility of researchers and research participants in two projects about pollution and epigenetics. Hence, our research question is:
How does a dynamic concept of human biology influence concepts of moral responsibility towards environmental pollution?
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