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Science, values, and objectivity /

"As Science, Values, and Objectivity reveals, the connections and interactions between values and science are quite complex. The essays in this volume identify the crucial values that play a role in science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used for value identification, and elabora...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Machamer, Peter K., Wolters, Gereon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2004]
Colección:Pittsburgh-Konstanz series in the philosophy and history of science.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The Epistemic, the Cognitive, and the Social / Larry Laudan
  • 2. Is There a Significant Distinction between Cognitive and Social Values? / Hugh Lacey
  • 3. Epistemic and Nonepistemic Values in Science / Mauro Dorato
  • 4. The Social in the Epistemic / Peter Machamer and Lisa Osbeck
  • 5. Transcending the Discourse of Social Influences / Barry Barnes
  • 6. Between Science and Values / Peter Weingart
  • 7. How Values Can Be Good for Science / Helen E. Longino
  • 8. "Social" Objectivity and the Objectivity of Value / Tara Smith
  • 9. On the Objectivity of Facts, Beliefs, and Values / Wolfgang Spohn
  • 10. A Case Study in Objectifying Values in Science / Mark A. Bedau
  • 11. Border Skirmishes between Science and Policy: Autonomy, Responsibility, and Values / Heather E. Douglas
  • 12. The Prescribed and Proscribed Values in Science Policy / Sandra D. Mitchell
  • 13. Bioethics: Its Foundation and Application in Political Decision Making / Felix Thiele
  • 14. Knowledge and Control: On the Bearing of Epistemic Values in Applied Science / Martin Carrier
  • 15. Law and Science / Eric Hilgendorf.