The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice : science and values revisited /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Carrier, Martin (Editor), Howard, Don, 1949- (Editor), Kourany, Janet A. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008.
Subjects:	Science > Philosophy > Congresses. Science > Social aspects > Congresses. Values > Congresses. Science and civilization. Science > Congresses. Social Values > Congresses. Civilization > Congresses. Philosophy > Congresses. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of 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.