| Description |
xiii, 289 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Part I: The Interplay of Science and Values: 1. How the Sciences Are and Are Not Value Free -- 2. Objectivity and Serving Human Well-Being -- 3. The Distinction Between Cognitive and Social Values -- 4. Incommensurability and "Multicultural Science" -- 5. The Social Location of Scientific Practices -- Part II: Current Controversy About Transgenic Crops: 6. The Controversy About Transgenics: Structure and Opposing Interests -- 7. Strategies for Research in Agricultural Science -- 8. Benefits of Using Transgenics -- 9. Environmental Risks of the Development and Use of Transgenics -- 10. Alternative ("Better") Forms of Farming -- Part III: Prolegomenon to Empirical Investigation of Future Social Possibilities: 11. The Socio-Cultural Location of Alternatives to Transgenics. |
| Summary |
Values and Objectivity in Science illuminates many of the ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications, offering an account of how social and ethical values play important roles within science. Hugh Lacey develops and clarifies his previous analysis by arguing for the importance of research being conducted under a plurality of strategies, contrasting "materialist strategies" with "agro-ecological strategies." By displaying the structure of current ethical controversies about the legitimacy of planting transgenic crops, this book illustrates that sound thinking on such issues must be grounded on an adequate philosophy of science, one that can clearly distinguish between the proper and the distorting roles of values in scientific practices. This book will prove useful for science students and practitioners as well as those interested in the growing ethical questions involved in scientific practices. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Transgenic plants.
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Science -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01108336
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Science -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst01108360
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Transgenic plants. (OCoLC)fst01154677
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Filosofia.
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Filosofia da ciência.
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Ciência (aspectos sociais)
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Nutzpflanzen.
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Transgene Pflanzen.
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Politikberatung.
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Wissenschaftsethik.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Lacey, Hugh. Values and objectivity in science. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2005 (OCoLC)607694873 |
| ISBN |
0739110454 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780739110454 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0739111418 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780739111413 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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