Hugh Lacey

Values and Objectivity in Science

The Current Controversy about Transgenic Crops

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an account of how values play an important role within scientific practices, and how this account illuminates many ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780739110454
• ISBN-10: 0739110454
• Artikelnr.: 22774146

Autorenporträt

By Hugh Lacey

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Part 2 Part I: The Interplay of Science and Values
Chapter 3 How the Sciences Are and Are Not Value Free Chapter 4 Objectivity
and Serving Human Well-Being Chapter 5 The Distinction Between Cognitive
and Social Values Chapter 6 Incommensurability and "Multicultural Science"
Chapter 7 The Social Location of Scientific Practices Part 8 Part II:
Current Controversy About Transgenic Crops Chapter 9 The Controversy ABout
Transgenics: Structure and Opposing Interests Chapter 10 Strategies for
Research in Agricultural Science Chapter 11 Benefits of Using Transgenics
Chapter 12 Environmental Risks of the Development and Use of Transgenics
Chapter 13 Alternative ("Better") Forms of Farming Part 14 Prolegomenon to
Empirical Investigation of Future Social Possibilities Chapter 15 The
Socio-Cultural Location of Alternatives to Transgenics