The challenge of the social and the pressure of practice
Subtitle: science and values revisited
By: edited by Martin Carrier, Don Howard, and Janet Kourany.
Contributors: Carrier, Martin.; Howard, Don, professor.; Kourany, Janet A.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780822943174
Subjects: Science -- Philosophy -- Congresses.; Science -- Social aspects -- Congresses.; Values -- Congresses.; Science and civilization.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "The origin of the present volume was a conference on science and values held at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) in Biefield, Germany, in July 2003"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: science and the social / Martin Carrier; value: Part I. The play of values within the core areas of scientific research; value: Must evidence underdetermine theory? / John D. Norton; value: Values and their intersection : reduction as methodology and ideology / Margaret Morrison; value: Values, heuristics, and the politics of knowledge / Helen E. Longino; value: Replacing the ideal of value-free science / Janet A. Kourany; value: Scientific values and the values of science / Jay F. Rosenberg; value: Part II. The demands of society on science : socially robust knowledge and expertise; value: How robust is "socially robust knowledge"? / Peter Weingart; value: In defense of some sweeping claims about socially robust knowledge / Roger Strand; value: Third wave science studies : toward a history and philosophy of expertise / Christopher Hamlin; value: Part III. The exigencies of research funding : epistemic values and economic benefit; value: The community of science / James Robert Brown; value: Science in the grip of the economy : on the epistemic impact of the commercialization of research / Martin Carrier; value: Promoting disinterestedness or making use of bias? : interests and moral obligation in commercialized research / Matthias Adam.