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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- University of PIttsburgh Digital Collections
- University of PIttsburgh Press Digital Editions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--Congresses.
- Values--Congresses.
- Values.
- Science and civilization.
- Genre:
- Actes de congres.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Conference papers and proceedings
- proceedings (reports)
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Congress
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- \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.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- "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."
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822971139
- 0822971135
- OCLC:
- 891385551
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