Values in science: Unity as a criterion of scientific choice

This chapter considers another factor that plays a role in eroding the public’s trust in science: concerns about the negative influence of nonepistemic values in science, particularly in controversial areas of inquiry with important effects on public policy. It shows that the credibility of scientists can be undermined when the public perceives that scientists have a political agenda or will be biased by their own personal or political values. However, to assume that the best way to address this problem is try to eliminate such values from science altogether would be a mistake. Ethical and social values are necessary and important to knowledge production. Consequently, the chapter explores alternative strategies to increase transparency and stakeholder involvement so as to address legitimate concerns about bias and sustain warranted trust in scientific communities.

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Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards, eds. Exploring Inductive Risk: Case Studies of Values in Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. xiv+277. $99.00 (cloth); $40.00 (paper).

HOPOS The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science ◽

10.1086/701859 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 179-182

Author(s):

Federica Russo

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Case Studies ◽

Values In Science ◽

Inductive Risk ◽

Oxford University ◽

Oxford University Press

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Criteria for scientific choice II: The two cultures

Minerva ◽

10.1007/bf01630147 ◽

1964 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 3-14 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Alvin M. Weinberg

Keyword(s):

Scientific Choice ◽

Two Cultures ◽

The Two Cultures

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Book Reviews: The Shadow of the Tsunami and the Growth of the Relational Mind, Restoration Therapy: Understanding and Guiding Healing in Marriage and Family Therapy, toward Mutual Recognition: Relational Psychoanalysis and the Christian Narrative, Working with the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning, Working with Traumatized Police Officer-Patients: A Clinician's Guide to Complex PTSD Syndromes in Public Safety Professionals, Why Things Matter: The Place of Values in Science, Psychoanalysis, and Religion, the Boob Girls II: The Burned Out Old Broads at Table 12—In Lies, Spies and Cinnamon Rolls, Working with the Bereaved: Multiple Lenses on Loss and Mourning, Healing Grief, Finding Peace: 101 Ways to Cope with the Death of Your Loved One, Helping the Bereaved College Student

Illness Crisis & Loss ◽

10.2190/il.20.2.j ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 201-222

Author(s):

Brad DeFord ◽

Diana Juettner ◽

Robert Stevenson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Family Therapy ◽

College Student ◽

Police Officer ◽

Marriage And Family Therapy ◽

Mutual Recognition ◽

Values In Science ◽

Marriage And Family ◽

Loved One ◽

Psychoanalysis And Religion

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Values in science

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139047760.013 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 229-257

Keyword(s):

Values In Science

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The Shifting Sands of Values in Science Education. An Introduction

Values in Science Education ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-42172-4_1 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Deborah Corrigan ◽

Cathy Buntting ◽

Alister Jones ◽

Angela Fitzgerald

Keyword(s):

Science Education ◽

Values In Science

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O FETICHE DA MERCADORIA-CIÊNCIA, O CIENTISTA COMO MERCADORIA E A DOMINAÇÃO TECNOLÓGICA

Cadernos de Educação Tecnologia e Sociedade ◽

10.14571/brajets.v13.n4.379-400 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 379

Author(s):

Valdemir Pereira de Queiroz Neto ◽

Maria de Fátima Vieira Severiano

Keyword(s):

Social Inequality ◽

Frankfurt School ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

Values In Science ◽

Political Values ◽

Human Needs ◽

Technological Rationality ◽

Educational Formation

This article has the objective of promoting reflections on the Technological Rationality and its implications to the production of science and the educational formation of scientists. With support on the theoretical reference of the Frankfurt School and other thinkers of the issue of technique and science, a critic is addressed to the existing disequilibrium between technical and humanitarian progress, denouncing the need of a redirection of scientific propositions to human needs and to the combat of the ever-increasing social inequality. Methodologically, this article is constituted of a theoretical discussion about the matter of the use of science as an instrument capable of enhancing the dominations directed to individuals, both scientists and consumers of science products. The findings reinforce the importance of the recovery of social and political values in science to the construction of a fairer and more balanced society.

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The Empirical Research for the Expansion of Chain into the Third and Fourth Tier Cities in Guangdong Province

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.433-440.1967 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 433-440 ◽

pp. 1967-1970

Author(s):

Jun Chen ◽

De Shan Tang

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Factor Analysis ◽

Empirical Research ◽

Power Index ◽

Guangdong Province ◽

County Level ◽

Scientific Choice ◽

Retail Chain ◽

The Third ◽

Set Up

The Retail Chain Enterprises implement the strategy of channel to sink to set up shops in third and fourth cities. A reasonable and scientific choice of order of priority must be made when the enterprises entering those cities. This article adopts the approach of the Factor Analysis and duster Analysis the analysis 72 cities (including county-level cities) according to purchasing power index, and to explore how Retail Chain Enterprises to make the market of third and fourth their cities in Guangdong province. The conclusion that is the order of decision ——making to enter into the third and fourth tier cities, which has important guiding significance.

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