Science as Social Knowledge : : Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry /

Science as Social Knowledge : : Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry / / Helen E. Longino.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Longino, Helen E.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1990
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Good Science, Bad Science
  • CHAPTER TWO. Methodology, Goals, and Practices
  • CHAPTER THREE. Evidence and Hypothesis
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Values and Objectivity
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Values and Science
  • CHAPTER SIX. Research on Sex Differences
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Explanatory Models in the Biology of Behavior
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Science in Society
  • CHAPTER NINE. Science and Ideology
  • CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion: Social Knowledge
  • WORKS CONSULTED
  • INDEX

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