The Routledge Handbook of Values and Science

1. An Introduction to Values and Science 

Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards

Part 1. Theoretical Background on Values and Science

2. Feminist Challenges to the Value-Free Ideal of Science 

Kristen K. Intemann

3. Standpoint Theory 

Kristina Rolin

4. Values and Objectivity 

Inkeri Koskinen

5. Arguments Against the Value-Free Ideal 

Kevin C. Elliott

6. Recent Arguments for the Ideal of Value-Free Science 

Matthew J. Brown

7. What Does It Mean to Say that Science is Value-Laden? 

Zina B. Ward

8. Aesthetic Values in Science: Contemporary Debates

Milena Ivanova

9. Representational Risk Revisited

Stephanie Harvard and Eric Winsberg

Part 2. Managing Values in Science

10. Reflecting on Responses to the New Demarcation Problem 

Bennett Holman and T. Y. Branch

11. An Intermediate Approach to Value Management 

Wendy S. Parker

12. Democracy, Consensus, and the Value-Free Ideal

Tarun Menon and Jacob Stegenga

13. Critical Contextual Empiricism

Kirstin Borgerson

14. Values in Global Science and the Relevance of Geographic Diversity

Juliana Gutiérrez Valderrama

15. The Limits of Diversity in Science: The Case of Human Microbiome Research

Abigail Nieves Delgado, Jan Baedke, and Ann-Christin Fisher

16. Transparency in Science

Stephen John

Part 3. Values, Science, and Democracy

17. Scientific Knowledge as a Public Resource: Arguments and Challenges for a Democratic Approach to Values in Science

S. Andrew Schroeder

18. Measuring the Public’s Values: Are the Data Adequate for Purpose?

Karen Kovaka

19. FDA Evidentiary Standards and the Need to Attend to Stakeholders’ Values

Inmaculada de Melo-Martín

20. Science and Democracy

Hannah Hilligardt and Torsten Wilholt

21. Science and Religion in a Democratic Society

Yiftach Fehige

22. Values in Science in Nondemocratic Contexts

Karoliina Pulkkinen

23. Science and Social Justice

Heather Douglas

24. Algorithmic Abolitionism and The Racial Algorithm

Alexander Williams Tolbert

Part 4. Values, Science, Institutions, and Organizations

25. The Values of Science Funding Institutions

Jamie Shaw

26. Values and Industry-Funded Research

Pedro Bravo

27. Epistemic Intimidation and Illegitimate Value-Influences in Science

Manuela Fernández Pinto and  Anna Leuschner

28. Networks and Values

Rebecca Korf and Cailin O’Connor

29. Valuing Partnerships in Agricultural Genomics Research: Using More Empirically Informed Philosophical Approaches to Advance the Science and Values Debates

Rachel A. Ankeny and Emily A. Buddle

30. Values and Assessment Reports on Climate Change

Ahmad Elabbar

31. Indigenous Peoples’ Leadership in Environmental Science Assessments

Kyle Whyte and Pasang Yangjee Sherpa

32. Controversies in Vaccine Policy

Maya J. Goldenberg

33. Values and Dual Use Biomedical Research

David B. Resnik

Part 5. Values in Scientific Activities

34. Values and Measurement

Cristian Larroulet Philippi

35. Science, Values, and Race Correction

Zinhle Mncube

36. Value Overlaps in Transdisciplinary and Intercultural Collaborations

Charbel El-Hani and David Ludwig

37. Tragedy or Transition? How Science and Values Matter for Climate Change Frames

Daniel Steel

38. Values in Science Communication Models

T. Y. Branch

39. Values in Research Ethics Education

Kristina Rolin

Part 6. Values in Specific Sciences

40. “Every Cell has a Sex”: Sex Essentialism in Biomedical Research

Robyn Bluhm

41. Values in Human Genomics

Yasmin Haddad and Celso Neto

42. Philosophical Approaches to Values in Climate Science

Greg Lusk

43. The Power of Value-Laden Framing: Examples from Wildlife Conservation Research

Jacalyn M. Beck, Claire F. Hoffmann, Kelly Kapsar, and Robert A. Montgomery

44. Values in Economics

Elizabeth Anderson

45. Artificial Intelligence: Values, Governance, and Policy

Justin B. Biddle

Biography

Kevin C. Elliott is Red Cedar Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, and the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His books include Values in Science (2022), A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science (2017), and Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research (2011).

Ted Richards is Academic Specialist in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is the editor of The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values and Democracy (2021), Exploring Inductive Risk (2017) with Kevin C. Elliott, and Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game (2010).