The CEU Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to aToPHSS Lecture
by
Heather Douglas (University of Waterloo)
on
Jettisoning the Value-Free Ideal: Why do it and where does it leave us?
30 March, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM, Room: Faculty Tower/608.
ABSTRACT
First, I will provide an overview of the arguments for getting rid of the value-free ideal
for science. But more interesting is what comes next. This raises questions regarding
both alternative ideals (what should constrain reasoning practices in science?) and the
social location of science (what role does science play in society and what role should it
play?). I will describe some advantages to particular replacement ideals, and address the
question of how we should be thinking about science in society.
"ToPHSS Lectures are part of the project “Topics in the Philosophy of the Human and
Social Sciences”, funded by the Humanities Initiative. The project aims to cross
boundaries between disciplines of the humanities and social sciences concerned with ‘the
human’, that is with human beings, humanity, society, culture, history, and more. It
focuses on methodological and ontological issues, in particular on those concerned with
contested categories of the humanities and social sciences, and of those primarily on the
categories of human, individual and person. This term the first focus is on the contested
divide between nature and culture."
Krisztina Biber
Department of Philosophy
Coordinator
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