Book ID: CBB383080414

Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research (2015)

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Harding, Sandra G. (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 232
Language: English

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 Objectivity and Diversity, Harding calls for a science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just, a science that would ask: How are the lives of the most economically and politically vulnerable groups affected by a particular piece of research? Do they have a say in whether and how the research is done? Should empirically reliable systems of indigenous knowledge count as "real science"? Ultimately, Harding argues for a shift from the ideal of a neutral, disinterested science to one that prizes fairness and responsibility.

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Authors & Contributors
Mirowski, Philip E.
Scott W. Schwartz
Tuboly, Adam Tamas
Stefania Achella
Boscarino, Giuseppe
Hartl, Péter
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and society
Science and economics
Philosophy of science
Research
Objectivity
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
Modern
Early modern
Medieval
Places
United States
Norway
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