Challenges of the Knowledge Society (May 2024)
EVALUATION OF DOCTORAL THESIS BY THE ACADEMIC GUIDANCE AND INTEGRITY COMMISSION, THE THESIS SUPPORT COMMITTEE AND CNATDCU. ASPECTS OF THE ORIGINALITY AND SCIENTIFIC VALUE OF DOCTORAL THESES. MORAL DILEMMAS OF THE DOCTORAL STUDENT
Abstract
This paper aims to present the way in which doctoral theses are evaluated by the academic guidance and integrity commission, the public support committee of the doctoral thesis and CNATDCU, as well as aspects regarding the originality and scientific value of doctoral theses. Beyond this technical analysis, which is extremely useful, the paper addresses issues of a common ethical nature, but little analysed, which appear in the scientific research activity when starting from the idea of the doctoral leader, the doctoral student develops and acquires as sole author the doctoral thesis. Also, in scientific research there may be contradictory points of view between the doctoral student and the doctoral leader, each point of view being supported from a scientific point of view, but only one point of view must be taken into account in the elaboration of the paper. The ethical aspects presented above may generate moral dilemmas of the doctoral student regarding the paternity of the doctoral thesis, respectively, whether or not the doctoral leader’s point of view is appropriated in the doctoral thesis. The topic presented makes a brief incursion into this complex issue and identifies possible ways to resolve the above-mentioned moral dilemmas.
