Science As Social Knowledge Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry

Name: Science As Social Knowledge Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry
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ISBN: 9780691020518

ISBN-10: 0691020515

ISBN-13: 9780691020518

Edition: 1990

Authors: Helen E. Longino

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Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope and depth is incapable of ruling out the influence of social and cultural values in the very structuring of knowledge. The objectivity of scientific inquiry can nevertheless be maintained, she proposes, by understanding scientific inquiry as a…

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List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/21/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Helen E. Longino is chair and the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of Knowledge.