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Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science: Philosophical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Histories of the Value-Laden Ideals of Science Philosophical Perspectives

Edited By Gábor István Bíró, Adam Tamas Tuboly Copyright 2027
360 Pages
by Routledge

This volume challenges oversimplified accounts of the value-free (VFI) and the value-laden ideals (VLI) in twentieth-century philosophy of science. Rather than a single, unified position, it reveals a diversity of perspectives on the relationship between science and values among influential thinkers of the period. Drawing on extensive historical research, the volume examines how philosophers... Read more

1. Science, Values, and their Intermingled Histories: Attempts to Refine, Revive, and Reconstruct Gábor Bíró and Adam Tamas Tuboly  

 

PART I – The Autonomy of Science in the Age of Autocracies  

  

2. A Peircean Account of Value-Influence in Science Mousa Mohammadian  

3. Value-Free Ideals in Twentieth-Century Philosophy of Science Jamie Shaw, Kevin C. Elliott, Kareem Khalifa, and Jonathan Y. Tsou  

4. Merton and the Value-Free Ideal of Science Jacopo Ambrosj  

5. From the Autonomy of Science to the Science of Autonomy: Michael Polanyi and the Value-Free Ideal of Science Gábor Bíró  

6. The Pareto-Criterion in Welfare Economics: A History of Alienation Theo Anders and Alexander Linsbichler  

  

PART II – From Idealistic Values to Pragmatic Science  

  

7. Science Without Scientists? In Search of Social Positivism Kelli Barr  

8. Metaphysics, Valus, and Positivism: Philipp Frank’s Humanistic Philosophy of Science Adam Tamas Tuboly  

9. A Science of Values: West Churchman’s Pragmatist Experimentalism Roberto Gronda  

10. Value as Meaning and as Behavior: Charles W. Morris Between Semiotics and Empirical Science Claudia Cristalli and Etienne Raduly  

11. Herbert Feigl, Metaethics, and the History of Science and Values Paul L. Franco  

12. Thomas Kuhn on Values in Science K. Brad Wray  

13. Methodological pluralism in Carnap and Feyerabend Robert Hudson  

Biography

Gábor Bíró is Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary and Research Fellow at the MTA Lendület Values and Science Research Group, ELTE-Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary.

Adam Tamás Tuboly is Senior Research Fellow at the Medical School, University of Pécs, Hungary, and Principal Investigator at the MTA Lendület Values and Science Research Group, ELTE-Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, Hungary.

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