Parker, Wendy S. (2025) An intermediate approach to value management. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The epistemic projection approach (EPA) is an intermediate approach to value management in science. It recognizes that there are sometimes good reasons to make research responsive to contextual values, but it achieves this responsiveness via the careful formulation of a research problem in the problem-selection stage of investigation. EPA is thus an approach that could be acceptable to some parties on both sides of the debate over the value-free ideal. Independent of this, EPA provides practitioners with concrete guidance on how to make research responsive to contextual values. This is illustrated with an example involving air pollution.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Parker, Wendy S. wendyparker@vt.edu
Subjects:	General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Wendy Parker
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2025 14:07
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2025 14:07
Item ID:	25828
Subjects:	General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25828

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