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Title The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany
Published Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Series University of PIttsburgh Press Digital Editions PPiU
University of PIttsburgh Digital Collections PPiU
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 "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."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index
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Subject Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
Science -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Values -- Congresses
Science and civilization.
Science.
Social values.
Civilization.
Philosophy.
Science
Social Values
Civilization
Philosophy
sciences (philosophy)
civilization.
philosophy.
science (modern discipline)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Social values
Science
Philosophy
Civilization
Science and civilization
Science -- Philosophy
Science -- Social aspects
Values
Wissenschaftstheorie
Wetenschap.
Maatschappij.
Waarden.
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Carrier, Martin, editor
Howard, Don, 1949- editor
Kourany, Janet A., editor
ISBN 9780822971139
0822971135