ISBN:
9780226241531
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece
DDC:
507.2
Keywords:
Wissenschaftsphilosophie
;
Wissenschaftssoziologie
;
Wissenschaft
;
Objektivität
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Vielfalt
;
Science Philosophy
;
Objectivity
;
Science Social aspects
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7208/chicago/9780226241531.001.0001/upso-9780226241227
URL:
http://chicago.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.7208/chicago/9780226241531.001.0001/upso-9780226241227
