Politics
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- Created on: 22-05-14 10:40
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- Politics themes
- Science and the state
- Whose values should decide WHAT we research
- Should this be democratic?
- Kitcher says democracy important - satisfy preferences of citizens.
- Moderate realism and significance: should research what people HERE find interesting
- Harm: research cannot be harmful. Should science be responsive to this?
- Who enforces this?
- Funding issue: what gets funded (PRIVATE RESEARCH?)
- Science at the service of the state?
- Should this be democratic?
- Whose values should decide WHAT we research
- Science and education
- Movement of knowledge from EXPERT to LAY (link with sic journalism)
- Education to teach deference (Whewell), or critical (Mill)
- Is science objective?
- Whose values should structure research we do?
- Longino: constitutive/contextual
- Rejects assumption that values are bad, as long as they are ViSIBLE and ACCEPTED BY COMMUNITY
- Science can vary community to community SSK link
- How does community criticism make something objective?
- Rejects assumption that values are bad, as long as they are ViSIBLE and ACCEPTED BY COMMUNITY
- Longino: constitutive/contextual
- Historical debates: Bauemler says disinterested science is a myth
- If we accept that values structure research, surely this should be democratic?
- Whose values should structure research we do?
- Who should do science?
- Values and facts: the goals should be DEMOCRTICALLY decided (??), and facts are means to achieve the goal
- Expert identification HARD
- Goldman's Problem: we seek expertise because we aren't equipped
- Expertise and credentials?
- Public involvement - improves fact claims/values?
- Science and policy
- Science and the state
- Whose values should decide WHAT we research
- Kitcher says democracy important - satisfy preferences of citizens.
- Moderate realism and significance: should research what people HERE find interesting
- Harm: research cannot be harmful. Should science be responsive to this?
- Who enforces this?
- Funding issue: what gets funded (PRIVATE RESEARCH?)
- Kitcher says democracy important - satisfy preferences of citizens.
- Science at the service of the state?
- Whose values should decide WHAT we research
- How should data be turned into policy, or reported to public?
- Sci journalism link - if interpretation done for lay, they aren't enlightened
- How to choose between theories - even epistemic values problematic
- Heather Douglas: responsibility on scientists for false positive/negative distinction
- Link with law and science - L'Aquila scientists
- Does inductive gap need to be closed? If so, by who/
- Science and the state
- Science and the state
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