Unwarranted Participant Questions and Virtuous Researcher Lies:

Research Ethics

PaulDavis¹ 

关键词: archer;    privacy;    integrity;    lying;    virtue;   

DOI  :  10.1177/174701611100700304

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Most writing on research ethics is about researcher treatment of participants. This essay considers a participant threat to researcher privacy and integrity. It is based partly upon a real-life sport research case, and discusses a participant request to know if the researcher supports a particular and popular football team. The researcher does support this team, but felt disinclined to answer truthfully, and so lied. It is argued, with the help of analogous cases, that the participant question is what Borge calls ‘unwarranted’, despite the football fan culture of allegiance disclosure. It is further argued, again following Borge, that refusal of the question would have generated a conversational admitture, resulting in the participant truly believing what the researcher correctly believes he has no right to know. The researcher is therefore justified in lying. This justification is buttressed by Swanton's virtue ethical account of right action, according to which an action is right if it is ‘overall virtu...

【 授权许可】

CC BY