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Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding

Name: Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding
Author: Hugh Lacey
ISBN: 9780415349031

by Hugh Lacey, Anthony H. Johns

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Synopsis

Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.

About the Author, Hugh Lacey

Hugh Lacey is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College. He is also the co-author (with Barry Schwartz) of Behaviourism, Science and Human Nature.