Elliott, Kevin and McKaughan, Daniel (2013) Non-Epistemic Values and the Multiple Goals of Science. [Preprint]
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Abstract
Recent efforts to argue that non-epistemic values have a legitimate role to play in assessing scientific models, theories, and hypotheses typically either reject the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic values or incorporate non-epistemic values only as a secondary consideration for resolving epistemic uncertainty. Given that scientific representations can legitimately be evaluated not only based on their fit with the world but also with respect to their fit with the needs of their users, we show in two case studies that non-epistemic values can play a legitimate role as factors that override epistemic considerations in assessing scientific representations for practical purposes.
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| Keywords: | science and values; non-epistemic values; models; cognitive attitudes; underdetermination; risk assessment | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Kevin Elliott | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2013 12:20 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Oct 2013 12:53 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 10027 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Biology > Ecology/Conservation General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Date: | 30 September 2013 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10027 |
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