Dr Gregory Lusk gregory.lusk@durham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Non-epistemic values and scientific assessment: an adequacy-for-purpose view
Lusk, Greg; Elliott, Kevin C.
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Kevin C. Elliott
Abstract
The literature on values in science struggles with questions about how to describe and manage the role of values in scientific research. We argue that progress can be made by shifting this literature’s current emphasis. Rather than arguing about how non-epistemic values can or should figure into scientific assessment, we suggest analyzing how scientific assessment can accommodate non-epistemic values. For scientific assessment to do so, it arguably needs to incorporate goals that have been traditionally characterized as non-epistemic. Building on this insight, we show how the adequacy-for-purpose framework recently developed for assessing scientific models can provide a general framework for describing scientific assessment so that it goes beyond purely epistemic considerations. Adopting this framework has significant advantages and opens the possibility of effecting a partial rapprochement between critics and proponents of the value-free ideal.
Citation
Lusk, G., & Elliott, K. C. (2022). Non-epistemic values and scientific assessment: an adequacy-for-purpose view. European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 12(2), Article 35. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00458-w
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 8, 2022 |
Online Publication Date | Jun 1, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-06 |
Deposit Date | Jul 15, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 15, 2022 |
Journal | European Journal for Philosophy of Science |
Print ISSN | 1879-4912 |
Electronic ISSN | 1879-4920 |
Publisher | Springer |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 2 |
Article Number | 35 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13194-022-00458-w |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1197548 |
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