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29Rejecting the Ideal of Value-Free ScienceIn Harold Kincaid, John Dupr’E. & Alison Wylie (eds.), Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions, Oxford University Press. pp. 120--141. 2007.
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21Philip Kitcher science in a democratic societyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 64 (4): 901-905. 2013.
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21The integration of symbolic and non-symbolic representations of exact quantity in preschool childrenCognition 166 (C): 382-397. 2017.
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19The social contract for science and the value-free idealSynthese 203 (2): 1-19. 2024.While the Value-Free Ideal (VFI) had many precursors, it became a solidified bulwark of normative claims about scientific reasoning and practice in the mid-twentieth century. Since then, it has played a central role in the philosophy of science, first as a basic presupposition of how science should work, then as a target for critique, and now as a target for replacement. In this paper, we will argue that a narrow focus on the VFI is misguided, because the VFI coalesced in the midst of other impo…Read more
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19Bullshit at the interface of science and policy: global warming, toxic substances and other pesky problemsIn Hardcastle Reisch (ed.), Bullshit and Philosophy, Open Court. pp. 213--226. 2006.
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17Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free?: Values & Scientific Understanding. Routledge , xiv + 285 pp., $90.00 (review)Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 386-389. 2002.
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16Philosophy of Science, Political Engagement, and the Cold War: An IntroductionScience & Education 18 (2): 157-160. 2009.
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6Hugh Lacey, Is Science Value Free?: Values & Scientific Understanding. Routledge (1999), xiv + 285 pp., $90.00 (cloth) (review)Philosophy of Science 69 (2): 379-406. 2002.
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4Inserting the public into scienceIn Sabine Maasen & Peter Weingart (eds.), Democratization of expertise?: exploring novel forms of scientific advice in political decision-making, Springer. pp. 153--169. 2005.
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4Science is one of the most important forces in contemporary society. The most reliable source of knowledge about the world, science shapes the technological possibilities before us, informs public policy, and is crucial to measuring the efficacy of public policy. Yet it is not a simple repository of facts on which we can draw. It is an ongoing process of evidence gathering, discovery, contestation, and criticism. I will argue that an understanding of the nature of science and the scientific…Read more
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3Values in ScienceIn Paul Humphreys (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Science, . pp. 609-630. 2016.
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1Scientific freedom and social responsibilityIn Péter Hartl & Adam Tamas Tuboly (eds.), Science, Freedom, Democracy, Routledge. 2021.
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The Use of Science in Policy-Making: A Study of Values in Dioxin ScienceDissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 1998.The risk regulation process has been traditionally conceived as having two components: a consultation of the experts concerning the magnitude of risk and a negotiated decision on whether and how to reduce that risk . The first component is generally thought to be free of the contentious value judgments that often characterize the second component. In examining the recent controversy over dioxin regulation, I argue that the first component is not value-free. I review three areas of science import…Read more
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Science, Values, and Democracy: The 2016 Descartes Lectures (edited book)Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University. 2021.
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Border Skirmishes between Science and PolicyIn Science, Values, and Objectivity, University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 220-44. 2004.
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Values in social scienceIn Nancy Cartwright & Eleonora Montuschi (eds.), Philosophy of Social Science: A New Introduction, Oxford University Press. 2014.
Areas of Specialization
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
General Philosophy of Science |
Areas of Interest
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |
General Philosophy of Science |