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In recent years there has been a revival of interest in ‘virtue’ ethics which expresses a concern for the characteristics of goodness seen to inhere in the individual (see Baggini and Fosl 2007: 94). So this chapter deals with the ‘virtues’ of the researcher. The virtuous researcher is someone the public, their colleagues and their funders can trust, and as Hazlitt warned: ‘Those who play the public or their friends slippery tricks, have in secret no objection to betray them’ (William Hazlitt On the Spirit of Obligations (Beatty 1920: 150)).
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© 2011 Ron Iphofen
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Iphofen, R. (2011). Researcher Identification — Professional Integrity and Track Record. In: Ethical Decision-Making in Social Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230233768_3
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