The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany
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The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany
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| Pubblicazione: | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , 2008 |
| ©2008 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/5 |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - Philosophy |
| Science - Social aspects | |
| Values | |
| Science and civilization | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | CarrierMartin |
| HowardDon <1949-> | |
| KouranyJanet A. | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice |
| ISBN: | 0-8229-7113-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826664403321 |
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