Values and Objectivity in Science : The Current Controversy about Transgenic Crops
by
Hugh Lacey
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0739111418
ISBN-13
9780739111413
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint
Lexington Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 8th, 2005
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.30 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyPhilosophy of science
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This book offers an account of how values play an important role within scientific practices, and how this account illuminates many ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications.
Values and Objectivity in Science illuminates many of the ethical issues that arise concerning scientific practices and applications, offering an account of how social and ethical values play important roles within science. Hugh Lacey develops and clarifies his previous analysis by arguing for the importance of research being conducted under a plurality of strategies, contrasting ''materialist strategies'' with ''agro-ecological strategies.'' By displaying the structure of current ethical controversies about the legitimacy of planting transgenic crops, this book illustrates that sound thinking on such issues must be grounded on an adequate philosophy of science, one that can clearly distinguish between the proper and the distorting roles of values in scientific practices. This book will prove useful for science students and practitioners as well as those interested in the growing ethical questions involved in scientific practices.
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