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7Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor ControversyWilfrid Laurier Press. 2006.Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991. Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is it possible that opposing assessments of risk, by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens, reflect and are guided by dominant values held by the assessors? The following analysis of one of these debates supports the latter view. In it we suggest what those dominant values are, how they work…Read more
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54Concerning value sciencePhilosophy of Science 21 (1): 54-61. 1954.There has been much discussion in recent years of the possibilities for and nature of “value science.” The present paper is intended to be a contribution to this discussion. One encouraging feature of the bulk of current discussion of value science is that its protagonists have a definite end in view, namely, “human betterment,” taking that phrase in the common sense as covering, at least, a process of creating and maintaining such conditions of life as enable human beings successfully to engage…Read more
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20Book Review:Social Theory and Social Structure Robert Merton (review)Philosophy of Science 26 (1): 53-. 1959.
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18Book Review:Contemporary Philosophy James Jarrett, Sterling McMurrin (review)Philosophy of Science 22 (2): 172-. 1955.
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31Is a Scientific Assessment of Risk Possible? Value Assumptions in the Canadian Alachlor ControversyDialogue 30 (3): 235-. 1991.Increasingly our society relies upon government regulatory agencies to protect its people, its institutions and its environment from the negative impacts of new technologies. These agencies are saddled with the task of deciding among strongly conflicting viewpoints represented by a wide range of interest groups and “value communities” within the society. When regulatory decisions are made some interests and values are protected while others are curtailed.
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20The Scientific Study of Social BehaviourBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 10 (39): 250-251. 1959.
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9The Scientific Study of Social Behaviour. Michael Argyle. New York: Philosophical Library, 1957. Pp. viii, 239. $6.00Philosophy of Science 25 (3): 228-229. 1958.
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23A dual-perspective model of agroecosystem health: System functions and system goalsJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 10 (2): 127-152. 1997.
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University of WaterlooDepartment of Philosophy
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Action |
Social and Political Philosophy |