Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research

by Sandra G. Harding

Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022624136X
• ISBN13: 9780226241364
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"