Van Bouwel, Jeroen Questioning the ideal of value neutrality. A reply to Van den Berg and Jeong. UNSPECIFIED.
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Is the ideal of value neutrality in science (a) achievable, (b) desirable, and, (c) not detrimental? Alex van den Berg and Tay Jeong (2022) passionately defend the ideal of value neutrality. In this reply, I would like to fine-tune some of their arguments as well as refute others. While there seems to be a broad consensus among philosophers of science that value neutrality is not achievable, one could still defend it as an ideal to aspire to for the sciences (including social sciences). However, I argue that the ideal of value neutrality advanced by van den Berg and Jeong is detrimental, therefore not desirable. We should rather adjust our view of science towards scientific pluralism and perspectivism in combination with strategies to productively deal with values in science. The latter approach is, pace van den Berg and Jeong, more conducive to democracy and egalitarianism than the ideal of value neutrality.
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| Keywords: | value neutrality, values in science, standpoint theory, scientific pluralism, perspectivism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Jeroen Van Bouwel | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Sep 2024 12:55 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2024 12:55 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 23893 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23893 |
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