Hugh Lacey

Is Science Value Free?

Values and Scientific Understanding

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This paperback edition includes a new preface.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415349031
• ISBN-10: 0415349036
• Artikelnr.: 22235289

Autorenporträt

Hugh Lacey is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is also the co-author (with Barry Schwartz) of Behaviourism, Science and Human Nature.

Inhaltsangabe

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