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The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice : Science and Values Revisited.
Title:
The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice : Science and Values Revisited.
Author:
Carrier, Martin.
ISBN:
9780822971139
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Science and the Social - Martin Carrier -- Part I. The Play of Values within the Core Areas of Scientific Research -- 1. Must Evidence Underdetermine Theory? - John D. Norton -- 2. Values and Their Intersection: Reduction as Methodology and Ideology - Margaret Morrison -- 3. Values, Heuristics, and the Politics of Knowledge - Helen E. Longino -- 4. Replacing the Ideal of Value-Free Science - Janet A. Kourany -- 5. Scientific Values and the Values of Science - Jay F. Rosenberg -- Part II. The Demands of Society on Science: Socially Robust Knowledge and Expertise -- 6. How Robust is "Socially Robust Knowledge"? - Peter Weingart -- 7. In Defense of Some Sweeping Claims about Socially Robust Knowledge - Roger Strand -- 8. Third Wave Science Studies: Toward a History and Philosophy of Expertise - Christopher Hamlin -- Part III. The Exigencies of Research Funding: Epistemic Values and Economic Benefit -- 9. The Community of Science® - James Robert Brown -- 10. Science in the Grip of the Economy: On the Epistemic Impact of the Commercialization of Research - Martin Carrier -- 11. Promoting Disinterestedness or Making Use of Bias? Interests and Moral Obligation in Commercialized Research - Matthias Adam -- Index.
Abstract:
Philosophers, sociologists, and historians of science offer a multidisciplinary view of the complex interrelationships of values in science and society, in both contemporary and historic contexts. They analyze the impact of commercialization and politicization on epistemic aspirations, and conversely, the ethical dilemmas raised by "practically relevant" science in today's society.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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