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Objectivity and diversity : another logic of scientific research / Sandra Harding

Harding, Sandra G. [Verfasser]

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016

Oxford : Oxford University Press

1 Online-Ressourcece

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-0-226-24153-1 ; 978-0-22-624122-7

AK 24200 LB 31000

 

Wissenschaftsphilosophie  Wissenschaftssoziologie  Wissenschaft  Objektivität  Naturwissenschaften  Vielfalt 

 

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Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In this volume, Harding calls for a science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just.