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Normative Approaches To Values In Science, Kristina Rolin
Normative Approaches To Values In Science, Kristina Rolin
XIV IAPh Symposium 2010
This presentation is part of the Reconsidering Values in Feminist Philosophy of Science track.
During the last three decades feminist philosophers of science have argued that the traditional ideal of value-free science should be replaced because either it is not feasible – or even if it is feasible, it is not a desirable epistemic goal. The traditional ideal of value-free science is the normative claim that social and moral values are not allowed to play a role in the reasoning and decision-making processes that scientists are engaged in when they decide to accept something as scientific knowledge, either individually or …