Research Catalog

Title

The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany.

Publication

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

• Carrier, Martin.
• Howard, Don, 1949-
• Kourany, Janet A.

Description

vii, 262 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Science > Philosophy > Congresses
• Values > Congresses
• Science > Social aspects > Congresses
• Science and civilization

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 (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JSE 14-114

ISBN

• 9780822962779
• 0822962772

LCCN

2007041847

OCLC

2007041847

Title

The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited / edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany.

Imprint

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Carrier, Martin.

Howard, Don, 1949-

Kourany, Janet A.

Research Call Number

JSE 14-114