eBooks - Philosophy - Philosophy - Hugh Lacey - Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding
Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding eBook
by Hugh Lacey
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Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding Summary
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The idea that science is value free has been challenged over the years by a number of different sides, including: postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, third world advocates and religious fundamentalists. In this book, Hugh Laceyappraises and explicates the view that science is value free. Lacey discusses how science and values interact, with a focus on a discussion of development, and sciences place in development particularly in third world countries. Is Science Value Free? takes a unique approach to this ongoing discussion in the following ways: * explores the nature and meaning of values * discusses challenges to the view that science as value free is possible * defines levels of scientific inquiry, bringing us closer to the possibility of an impartial ideal Is Science Value Free? gives us a refreshing and intriguing new look at how we see and study science. Students of science and philosophy of science will find this to be an invaluable read. |
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