Value-free science? ideals and illusions /

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Kincaid, Harold, 1952-, Dupré, John, Wylie, Alison
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Case studies. Fact and value / John Dupré
  • Social problems / Michael Root
  • Coming to terms with the values of science : insights from the Feminist Science Studies Scholarship / Alison Wylie and Lynn Hankinson Nelson
  • Evaluating scientist : examining the effects of sexism and nepotism / K. Brad Wray. Pt. II. Evidence and values. Evidence and value freedom / Elliott Sober
  • Rejecting the ideal of value-free science / Heather Douglas. Pt. III. Values and general philosophy of science perspectives. Is logical empiricism committed to the ideal of value-free science? / John T. Roberts
  • Constructive empiricism and the role of social values in science / Sherrilyn Roush
  • The value ladenness of scientific knowledge / Gerald Doppelt
  • Contextualist morals and science / Harold Kincaid