The Challenge of the Social and the Pressure of Practice : Science and Values Revisited

Preface vii Introduction: Science and the Social 1 MARTIN CARRIER Part I. The Play of Values within the Core Areas of Scientific Research 1. Must Evidence Underdetermine Theory? 17 JOHN D. NORTON 2. Values and Their Intersection: Reduction as Methodology and Ideology 45 MARGARET MORRISON 3. Values, Heuristics, and the Politics of Knowledge 68 HELEN E. LONGING 4. Replacing the Ideal of Value-Free Science 87 JANET A. KOURANY 5. Scientific Values and the Values of Science 112 JAY F. ROSENBERG Part II. The Demands of Society on Science: Socially Robust Knowledge and Expertise 6. How Robust Is "Socially Robust Knowledge"? 131 PETER WEINGART 7. In Defense of Some Sweeping Claims about Socially Robust Knowledge 146 ROGER STRAND 8. Third Wave Science Studies: Toward a History and Philosophy of Expertise 160 CHRISTOPHER HAMLIN Part III. The Exigencies of Research Funding: Epistemic Values and Economic Benefit 9. The Community of Science 189 JAMES ROBERT BROWN 10. Science in the Grip of the Economy: On the Epistemic Impact of the Commercialization of Research 217 MARTIN CARRIER 11. Promoting Disinterestedness or Making Use of Bias? Interests and Moral Obligation in Commercialized Research 235 MATTHIAS ADAM Index 256