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** Privacy: anonymity and confidentiality, as requested (duty)
** Privacy: anonymity and confidentiality, as requested (duty)
* Philosophical ethics
* Philosophical ethics
** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnO4nDA3kM The Trolley problem]
** Traditional ethics: The Golden Rule
** Traditional ethics: The Golden Rule
** Kantian ethics - the categorical imperative ("Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"),action considered an end in itself (vs the hypothetical imperative: action to achieve a particular end)
** Kantian ethics - the categorical imperative ("Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"),action considered an end in itself (vs the hypothetical imperative: action to achieve a particular end)
** Habermas: Communicative Action (treating people as a communicative end, not a means - illocutionary mood)
** Habermas: Communicative Action (treating people as a communicative end, not a means - illocutionary mood)
** Utilitarians:  consequential summation
** Utilitarians:  consequential summation. Conundrums: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDnO4nDA3kM The Trolley problem]
** Why is ethics important for ethnomusicology?
** Why is ethics important for ethnomusicology?
** Why is it especially important for applied ethnomusicology (and M4GHD projects)?  
** Why is it especially important for applied ethnomusicology (and M4GHD projects)?  

Revision as of 18:53, 24 January 2022

  • Ethics: the Good.
    • Human rights, such as freedom and equality, as minima (equal inputs) and emergence (where freedom, say, may lead to inequality)
    • Social justice (equal outcomes; may require equity rather than equality on input)
    • Deontological vs. Consequentialist approaches towards Ethical Action.
  • Key ethical principles (cited in research literature) balance the deontological (duty: action inputs, intentions) with the consequentialist (action outcomes, cost/benefit assessments). The following are often cited:
    • Humanity: respecting human dignity and rights--minima--and avoiding exploitation (duty)
    • Beneficence (ensuring that good outweighs harm) (outcome)
    • Equality (social justice, equal outcomes)
    • Informed consent (dignity; duty)
    • Privacy: anonymity and confidentiality, as requested (duty)
  • Philosophical ethics
    • Traditional ethics: The Golden Rule
    • Kantian ethics - the categorical imperative ("Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law"),action considered an end in itself (vs the hypothetical imperative: action to achieve a particular end)
    • Habermas: Communicative Action (treating people as a communicative end, not a means - illocutionary mood)
    • Utilitarians: consequential summation. Conundrums: The Trolley problem
    • Why is ethics important for ethnomusicology?
    • Why is it especially important for applied ethnomusicology (and M4GHD projects)?
      • The ethical impetus behind M4GHD (and Community Music Therapy) itself
      • Their focus on disempowered or marginalized communities
      • Potential pitfalls: can you think of ethical problems that may arise in the course of ethnomusicological research? (think about conflicts in "doing the right thing" conflict?)
    • Breakout session:
      • Ethical conundrums! How would you solve them?
      • Come up with an ethnomusicological conundrum of your own.
  • Research Ethics documents at the UofA
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