This is the first-ever handbook to cover the vibrant philosophical literature on values and science.
Its 45 chaptersappearing in print here for the first timewere written by a distinguished, international group of contributors and have been organized into six parts that explore the many ways in which ethics, values, and social considerations relate to the practices and content of the sciences:
Theoretical Background on Values and Science Managing Values in Science Values, Science, and Democracy Values, Science, Institutions, and Organizations Values in Scientific Activities Values in Specific Sciences
Published at a time of increasing concerns about misinformation, polarization, and lack of reproducibility in science, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how science can be made more ethically and socially responsible.
The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science is designed to be an accessible resource not only for philosophers but also for scientists, policy makers, science communicators, and scholars from other science-studies fields.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [ Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
1. An Introduction to Values and Science Part
1. Theoretical Background
on Values and Science
2. Feminist Challenges to the Value-Free Ideal of
Science
3. Standpoint Theory
4. Values and Objectivity
5. Arguments Against
the Value-Free Ideal
6. Recent Arguments for the Ideal of Value-Free Science
7. What Does It Mean to Say that Science is Value-Laden?
8. Aesthetic Values
in Science: Contemporary Debates
9. Representational Risk Revisited Part
2.
Managing Values in Science
10. Reflecting on Responses to the New Demarcation
Problem
11. An Intermediate Approach to Value Management
12. Democracy,
Consensus, and the Value-Free Ideal
13. Critical Contextual Empiricism
14.
Values in Global Science and the Relevance of Geographic Diversity
15. The
Limits of Diversity in Science: The Case of Human Microbiome Research
16.
Transparency in Science Part
3. Values, Science, and Democracy
17. Scientific
Knowledge as a Public Resource: Arguments and Challenges for a Democratic
Approach to Values in Science
18. Measuring the Publics Values: Are the Data
Adequate for Purpose?
19. FDA Evidentiary Standards and the Need to Attend to
Stakeholders Values
20. Science and Democracy
21. Science and Religion in a
Democratic Society
22. Values in Science in Nondemocratic Contexts
23.
Science and Social Justice
24. Algorithmic Abolitionism and The Racial
Algorithm Part
4. Values, Science, Institutions, and Organizations
25. The
Values of Science Funding Institutions
26. Values and Industry-Funded
Research
27. Epistemic Intimidation and Illegitimate Value-Influences in
Science
28. Networks and Values
29. Valuing Partnerships in Agricultural
Genomics Research: Using More Empirically Informed Philosophical Approaches
to Advance the Science and Values Debates
30. Values and Assessment Reports
on Climate Change
31. Indigenous Peoples Leadership in Environmental Science
Assessments
32. Controversies in Vaccine Policy
33. Values and Dual Use
Biomedical Research Part
5. Values in Scientific Activities
34. Values and
Measurement
35. Science, Values, and Race Correction
36. Value Overlaps in
Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Collaborations
37. Tragedy or Transition?
How Science and Values Matter for Climate Change Frames
38. Values in Science
Communication Models
39. Values in Research Ethics Education Part
6. Values
in Specific Sciences
40. Every Cell has a Sex: Sex Essentialism in
Biomedical Research
41. Values in Human Genomics
42. Philosophical Approaches
to Values in Climate Science
43. The Power of Value-Laden Framing: Examples
from Wildlife Conservation Research
44. Values in Economics
45. Artificial
Intelligence: Values, Governance, and Policy
Kevin C. Elliott is Red Cedar Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His books include Values in Science (2022), A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science (2017), and Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research (2011).
Ted Richards is Academic Specialist in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the editor of The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values and Democracy (2021), Exploring Inductive Risk (2017) with Kevin C. Elliott, and Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game (2010).
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