Value-Free Science?
Ideals and Illusions
John Dupré editor Harold Kincaid editor Alison Wylie editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:5th Apr '07
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It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how values are involved in science, and examine the implications of this involvement for ideals of objectivity.
Historians of science whose work has led them to puzzle over their own and their historical actors' judgments of the relations between value and scientific fact will find much of value here. * Alan Richardson, Isis *
ISBN: 9780195308969
Dimensions: 148mm x 216mm x 26mm
Weight: 449g
256 pages