Value-Free Science?: Ideals and Illusion

✍ Scribed by Harold Kincaid, John Dupré, Alison Wylie

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values are involved in science, and examine the implications of this involvement for ideals of objectivity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 12
Contributors......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
PART I: CASE STUDIES......Page 40
ONE: Fact and Value......Page 42
TWO: Social Problems......Page 57
THREE: Coming to Terms with the Values of Science: Insights from Feminist Science Studies Scholarship......Page 73
FOUR: Evaluating Scientists: Examining the Effects of Sexism and Nepotism......Page 102
PART II: EVIDENCE AND VALUES......Page 122
FIVE: Evidence and Value Freedom......Page 124
SIX: Rejecting the Ideal of Value-Free Science......Page 135
PART III: VALUES AND GENERAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES......Page 156
SEVEN: Is Logical Empiricism Committed to the Ideal of Value-Free Science?......Page 158
EIGHT: Constructive Empiricism and the Role of Social Values in Science......Page 179
NINE: The Value Ladenness of Scientific Knowledge......Page 203
TEN: Contextualist Morals and Science......Page 233
E......Page 254
Q......Page 255
W......Page 256