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Libro 7 de 20: Philosophical Issues in Science

Lacey, Hugh

 
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Sinopsis

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.

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

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9780415349031: Is Science Value Free?: Values and Scientific Understanding (Philosophical Issues in Science)

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ISBN 10:  0415349036 ISBN 13:  9780415349031
Editorial: Routledge, 2004
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