Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry

by Helen E. Longino

Book Overview

Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691020515
• ISBN13: 9780691020518
• Release Date: February 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"