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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Values in science"”.
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(Non-)Religious Bias in Secularization Research
… of secularization posits that religion declines as modernization unfolds. Once a dominant paradigm, it is now one of the most contested areas in the sociology of religion: even rigorous empirical studies reach contradictory conclusions. This PhD thesis asks whether part of this variability …
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Radical Pluralism, Ontological Underdetermination, and the Role of Values in Species Classification
The main claim of this thesis is that value-judgments should play a profound role in the construction and evaluation of species classifications. The arguments for this claim will be presented over the course of five chapters. These are divided into two main parts; part one, which consists of the …
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Pluralism and the 'Problem of Reality' in the Later Philosophy of Paul Feyerabend
Feyerabend’s later philosophy was a sustained defence of cultural and epistemic diversity. After Against Method (1975) Feyerabend argued that his rejection of methodological monism challenged the presumed unity and superiority of scientific knowledge and practices. His later philosophy was …
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On Non-epistemic Values in Climate Science for Decision Support
Climate change is an ever-increasing threat to humanity, making the need for decision relevant, actionable climate science more and more pressing. With this need comes pressure to articulate what constitutes responsible practice in climate science for decision support. This requires in part …
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Justice as an ideal for climate assessment
Confronting a series of planetary crises, the international community has established a complex regime of global environmental assessments. The most prominent of these remains the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose climate assessments have decisively shaped the politics of …
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Science and the Structure of Social Experiment: A Socio-political Study of Climate Data Infrastructure
In recent years a growing literature on science addresses the problem - some may even call it a crisis - of science’s public legitimacy (Douglas 2009, Oreskes and Conway 2010, de Melo-Martin and Intemann 2018). Analysts in this literature see in such media phenomena as climate change denial, …
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Values in Action: Simplicity, Completeness, and Carefulness in the Development of the Systematisations of Chemical Elements
… Meyer, and John Newlands – emphasised different values when developing their systematisations of the chemical elements in 1863-1875. While no chemist emphasised just one value in the course of establishing of their systematisations, I argue that Newlands elevated simplicity (“simple relation”), …
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Using Integrated Assessment Models to Achieve the Paris Climate Target
Integrated assessment models (IAMs) have become central tools in global assessments of how to achieve the Paris climate target. But how reliable are the insights that can be drawn from IAMs? This thesis identifies and begins to assess three challenges associated with the use of IAM ensembles and …
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Values and Science: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Exploration
This dissertation is an experiment in interdisciplinary feminist philosophy of science. It explores an extremely broad question—what is the relationship between science and social values? —by interweaving three families of methodological approaches, to produce three papers, each geared to a …
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Pluralism and social epistemology in economics
Economics plays a significant role in decision-making in contemporary western societies, but its role is increasingly questioned. A recurring topic among the challenges raised by critics is that economics as a discipline lacks sufficient pluralism. That is, it fails to enable, encourage, and …