Values in science: Unity as a criterion of scientific choice

Minerva ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin M. Weinberg
Author(s):  
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín ◽  
Kristen Intemann

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.


Minerva ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alvin M. Weinberg

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Deborah Corrigan ◽  
Cathy Buntting ◽  
Alister Jones ◽  
Angela Fitzgerald

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 379
Author(s):  
Valdemir Pereira de Queiroz Neto ◽  
Maria de Fátima Vieira Severiano

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.


2012 ◽  
Vol 433-440 ◽  
pp. 1967-1970
Author(s):  
Jun Chen ◽  
De Shan Tang

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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