Description: Objectivity and Diversity : Another Logic of Scientific Research, Paperback by Harding, Sandra, ISBN 022624136X, ISBN-13 9780226241364, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In Objectivity and Diversity, Harding calls for a science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just, a science that would ask: How are the lives of the most economically and politically vulnerable groups affected by a particular piece of research? Do they have a say in whether and how the research is done? Should empirically reliable systems of indigenous knowledge count as "real science"? Ultimately, Harding argues for a shift from the ideal of a neutral, disinterested science to one that prizes fairness and responsibility.
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Book Title: Objectivity and Diversity : Another Logic of Scientific Research
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Objectivity and Diversity : Another Logic of Scientific Research
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Philosophy & Social Aspects, Epistemology, Women's Studies
Publication Year: 2015
Item Weight: 12.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Sandra Harding
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Science
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
