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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826664403321

Titolo

The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

0-8229-7113-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/5

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Science - Social aspects

Values

Science and civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"The origin of the present volume was a conference on science and values held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Bielefeld, Germany, in July 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: science and the social / Martin Carrier -- Part I. The play of values within the core areas of scientific research -- Must evidence underdetermine theory? / John D. Norton -- Values and their intersection : reduction as methodology and ideology / Margaret Morrison -- Values, heuristics, and the politics of knowledge / Helen E. Longino -- Replacing the ideal of value-free science / Janet A. Kourany -- Scientific values and the values of science / Jay F. Rosenberg -- Part II. The demands of society on science : socially robust knowledge and expertise -- How robust is "socially robust knowledge"? / Peter Weingart -- In defense of some sweeping claims about socially robust knowledge / Roger Strand -- 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 -- The community of science / James Robert Brown -- Science in the grip of the economy : on the epistemic impact of the commercialization of research / Martin Carrier -- Promoting



disinterestedness or making use of bias? : interests and moral obligation in commercialized research / Matthias Adam.