Value-Free Science: Ideals and Illusions?

It has long been thought that science is our best hope for realizing objective knowledge, but that, to deliver on this promise, it must be value free. Things are not so simple, however, as recent work in science studies makes clear. The contributors to this volume investigate where and how
values are involved in science, and examine the implications of this involvement for ideals of objectivity.


Author: Harold Kincaid
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 03/15/2007
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.82w x 1.01d
ISBN: 9780195308969

About the Author

Harold Kincaid is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama.

John Dupré is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society at the University of Exeter.

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