ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests how a virtue-theoretic approach that focuses on the vocational values of scientific practice might work as an alternative, positive framework for science ethics. It also suggests how it helps to reconceive the way traditional Responsible Conduct of Research topics are taught, and how it expands the kind of issues that may fit under that heading. The chapter provides an unusually rich perspective for rethinking and reconceiving the scope and content of research ethics. It argues that a virtue-based approach that looks to the goals, values and virtues of scientific practice may assuage some of these problems and so have a better chance of fostering a culture of scientific integrity. The chapter develops a survey instrument aimed at capturing the views of scientists about precisely which character virtues are most important for the exemplary practice of science. It addresses the courses for science students framed in terms of the scientific virtues.
