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False, but common, assumptions about dilemmas in moral reasoning and the so-called fact/value dichotomy can impede the prosecution JERHRE's prime aim: Facilitating ethical problem solving in human research. Research ethics, and the development of moral science, demand better assumptions about ordinary everyday problem solving morality and the deep-seated connectedness of facts and values.

AbstractIn 1946, after visiting Russia, Harold Innis remarked that the time had come to broaden the range of political economy by studying, first, the struggle for social supremacy between states, churches and commerce; and, second, the related competition between languages, religions, cultures and communications media. This, I argue, is what Innis accomplished. His early studies of Canadian economic history transcended conventional economics and laid the groundwork for a later political theory of communications. It expressly took up the 1946 challenge to address competing monopolies of knowledge and power, hence manipulating the space and time-binding properties of communications media. Innis' work reflected a materialist model of communications, a social ecology, a soft determinism or philosophic naturalism and it linked knowledge, freedom and power. Finally, I conclude, these insights permitted Innis to transcend bias and to search for a balanced culture.

A nonrepressive standpoint toward the natural habitat is crucially needed to reverse the developing trend toward ecological problems. The old reality of abundance is rapidly being supplanted by a new reality of scarcity, & critical theory must be revised to meet exigencies created by this change in the ecological sphere. The theories of J. Habermas which encompass empirico-analytic sciences in their relation to technical human interest in control are criticized with reference to ecological imperatives. Habermas' conviction of the necessity to control nature is questioned in that man & nature actually exist as one; the unity does not lend itself to a controller/controlled dichotomy. Ecological science must not be viewed as a manipulative force designed to dominate; a more holistic view must be adopted in which the nature/human relationship is honored. The natural sciences & techniques of advanced societies must be ecologically formulated. Ideals of freedom, liberation, & autonomy prove amenable to an ecological frame of reference: "social & natural emancipation codetermine each other"; however, the choice between domination & emancipation must be made by nature as well as by man. C. Grindle.