Value-Free Science Ideals and Illusions?,9780199867608

Value-Free Science Ideals and Illusions?

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ISBN13: 9780199867608
ISBN10: 0199867607
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Pub. Date: 2009-01-01
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Harold Kincaid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama.

John Dupr? is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter.

Table of Contents


Chapter 1 Introduction

Part I Case Studies
Chapter 2. Fact and Value, John Dupr? (University of Exeter)
Chapter 3. How Should Sociologists Study Social Problems? Michael Root (University of Minnesota)
Chapter 4. Coming to Terms with the Value(s) of Science: Insights from Feminist Science Scholarship, Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Alison Wylie (University of Washington)
Chapter 5. Evaluating Scientists, Brad Wray (SUNY Oswego)

Part II Evidence and Values
Chapter 6. Elliott Sober, Evidence and Value Freedom, Elliott Sober (University of Wisconsin)
Chapter 7. Rejecting the Ideal of Value Free Science, Heather Douglas (University of Tennessee)

Part III Values and General Philosophy of Science Perspectives
Chapter 8. Is Logical Empiricism Committed to the Ideal of Value Free Science? John Roberts (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Chapter 9. Constructive Empiricism and the Role of Social Values in Science, Sherri Roush (Rice University)
Chapter 10. The Value Ladenness of Scientific Knowledge, Gerald Doppelt (University of California, San Diego)
Chapter 11. Contextualist Morals and Science, Harold Kincaid (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

Index

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