Is science value free? : values and scientific understanding /

"Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuse...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lacey, Hugh
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge : Taylor & Francis Group, 2005.
Edición:Paperback ed., with a new preface
Colección:Philosophical issues in science
Materias:
Science > Philosophy.
Objectivity.
Values.
Ciencia > Filosofía.
Objetividad.
Valor (Filosofía)
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300 |a xviii, 285 p. ;  |c 22 cm. 
490 1 |a Philosophical issues in science 
500 |a Editado originalmente en 1999. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 274-280) e índice. 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction: the idea that science is value free -- 2. Values -- 3. Cognitive values -- 4. Science as value free: provisional theses -- 5. Scientific understanding -- 6. The control of nature -- 7. Kuhn: scientific activity in different 'worlds' -- 8. A "grassroots empowerment" approach -- 9. A feminist approach -- 10. Science as value free: revised theses -- 11. Conclusion. 
520 |a "Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries." --Descripción del editor. 
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