Rohozha, Mariya2024-10-142024-10-142023Rohozha M. Transformations of moral responsibility of a Scientist in the world of modernity / Mariya Rohozha // The Days of Science of the Faculty of Philosophy – 2023 : International Scientific Conference, May 11-12, 2023 : abstracts / ed. board: A. Konverskyi [et al.] ; Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv [et al.]. - Kyiv : Publishing center "Kyiv University", 2023. - P. 306-315.https://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/31851The idea of moral responsibility of a scientist is objectively built into the Western culture since the epoch of the Scientific Revolution of Modernity. The demand of personal scientific integrity of a scientist was called by the scientific community to prevent data fabrication and unfairness in research. Current impetuous transformations in the world were provoked and conditioned by contemporary scientific and technical progress. They compel to revise traditional value foundations of a scientist’s activity by character and quality of transformations. Research fairness and honesty of scientists are not enough for research in the light of estimation of their activity in the creation of nuclear power plants and the checkout of nuclear weapons, genetically modifies organisms and chemical food additives. The object of research is moral value of responsibility in the field of science of Modernity. The purpose of the article is to expose qualitative transformations of moral responsibility and changes in comprehension of the idea of responsibility by a scientist and a society during last centuries and especially in the 20th century, the second half of which is usually called Late Modernity (Giddens, 1995). The methodology, based on A. Giddens differentiations of Modernity and Late Modernity are used. The objectives of the paper are: (1) to expose contents of transformations of the idea of responsibility in the field of science in Modernity; (2) to show the qualitative changes in scope of moral responsibility in the risk society of the Late Modernity; (3) to outline a charge in responsibility and to differentiate value dimensions of its actualization in the contemporary world.enideal of a scientisttype of scientific rationalityclassical sciencenon-classical sciencepost-non-classical sciencepersonal responsibilitysocial responsibilityrisks and hazardsconference materialsConference materials