The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany.
Carrier, Martin.; Howard, Don, professor.; Kourany, Janet A.
2008
Q175.5 .C4818 2008 (Mapit)
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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.
ISBN 9780822943174 (alk. paper)
0822943174 (alk. paper)
Imprint Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008.
Language English
Description vii, 262 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number Q175.5 .C4818 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4/5
Note "The origin of the present volume was a conference on science and values held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Biefield, Germany, in July 2003"--P. vii.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author Carrier, Martin.
Howard, Don, professor.
Kourany, Janet A.
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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.

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