Hicks, Daniel J. and Stapleford, Thomas A. (2016) The Virtues of Scientific Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics, and the Historiography of Science. [Preprint]
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Abstract
“Practice” has become a ubiquitous term in the history of science, and yet historians have not always reflected on its philosophical import and especially on its potential connections with ethics. In this essay, we draw on the work of the virtue ethicist Alasdair MacIntyre to develop a theory of “communal practices” and explore how such an approach can inform the history of science, including allegations about the corruption of science by wealth or power; consideration of scientific ethics or “moral economies”; the role of values in science; the ethical distinctiveness (or not) of scientific vocations; and the relationship between history of science and the practice of science itself.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Isis | |||||||||
| Keywords: | history of science; science and technology studies; scientific practices; values in science | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dan Hicks | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 24 May 2016 20:21 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 24 May 2016 20:21 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 12110 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Feminist Approaches General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | May 2016 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12110 |
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