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Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr. New. 2004. Hardcover. 0822942372 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - 328 pages; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Introduction : science, values, and objectivity 1 * 1 The epistemic, the cognitive, and the social 14 * 2 Is there a significant distinction between cognitive and social values? 24 * 3 Epistemic and nonepistemic values in science 52 * 4 The social in the epistemic 78 * 5 Transcending the discourse of social influences 90 * 6 Between science and values 112 * 7 How values can be good for science 127 * 8 "Social" objectivity and the objectivity of value 143 * 9 On the objectivity of facts, beliefs, and values 172 * 10 A case study in objectifying values in science 190 * 11 Border skirmishes between science and policy : autonomy, responsibility, and values 220 * 12 The prescribed and proscribed values in science policy 245 * 13 Bioethics : its foundation and application in political decision making 256 * 14 Knowledge and control : on the bearing of epistemic values in applied science 275 * 15 Law and science 294. -- DESCRIPTION: -- -- "Is there any room for facts in a world of values? How is objectivity to be saved if science is as value-laden as most commentators now seem to agree? The well-chosen selection of essays in this anthology nicely illustrates the diverse ways in which an affirmative answer may be reached to these currently much debated questions." --Ernan McMullin, University of Notre Dame Few people, if any, still argue that science in all its aspects is a value-free endeavor. At the very least, values affect decisions about the choice of research problems to investigate and the uses to which the results of research are applied. But what about the actual doing of science? As Science, Values, and Objectivity reveals, the connections and interactions between values and science are quite complex. The essays in this volume identify the crucial values that play a role in science, distinguish some of the criteria that can be used for value identification, and elaborate the conditions for warranting certain values as necessary or central to the very activity of scientific research. Recently, social constructivists have taken the presence of values within the scientific model to question the basis of objectivity. However, the contributors to Science, Values, and Objectivity recognize that such acknowledgment of the role of values does not negate the fact that objects exist in the world. Objects have the power to constrain our actions and thoughts, though the norms for these thoughts lie in the public, social world. Values may be decried or defended, praised or blamed, but in a world that strives for a modicum of reason, values, too, must be reasoned. Critical assessment of the values that play a role in scientific research is as much a part of doing good science as interpreting data. -- AUTHORS: Barry Barnes, Mark A. Bedau, Martin Carrier, Mauro Dorato, Heather E. Douglas, Eric Hilgendorf, Hugh Lacey, Larry Laudan, Helen E. Longino, Peter Machamer, Sandra D. Mitchell, Lisa Osbeck, Tara Smith, Wolfgang Spohn, Felix Thiele, Peter Weingart, Gereon Wolters -- Peter Machamer is a professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Gereon Wolters is a professor of philosophy and Deputy Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Konstanz. -- with a bonus offer-- ., Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, 2004, 6<