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Navigating dissent by managing value judgments: the case of Lyme disease
Recent philosophical literature has highlighted the complexities of handling dissent in science. On one hand, scientific dissent can be very harmful, as when “merchants of doubt” strategically appeal to dissen...
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Science, Values, and the New Demarcation Problem
In recent years, many philosophers of science have rejected the “value-free ideal” for science, arguing that non-epistemic values have a legitimate role to play in scientific inquiry. However, this philosophic...
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Addressing the Reproducibility Crisis: A Response to Hudson
In this response to Robert Hudson’s article, “Should We Strive to Make Science Bias-Free? A Philosophical Assessment of the Reproducibility Crisis,” we identify three ways in which he misrepresents our work: (...
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Open AccessNon-epistemic values and scientific assessment: an adequacy-for-purpose view
The literature on values in science struggles with questions about how to describe and manage the role of values in scientific research. We argue that progress can be made by shifting this literature’s current...
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Using Drones to Study Human Beings: Ethical and Regulatory Issues
Researchers have used drones to track wildlife populations, monitor forest fires, map glaciers, and measure air pollution but have only begun to consider how to use these unmanned aerial vehicles to study huma...
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Missing the Mark: A New Form of Honorary Authorship Motivated by Desires for Inclusion
As scientific teams in academia have become increasingly large, interdisciplinary, and diverse, more attention has been paid to honorary authorship (i.e., giving authorship to those not making a significant co...
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Roles for Socially Engaged Philosophy of Science in Environmental Policy
In recent years, philosophers of science have taken renewed interest in pursuing scholarship that is “socially engaged.” As a result, this scholarship has become increasingly relevant to public policy. In orde...
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The Future of Adverse Outcome Pathways: Analyzing their Social Context
This chapter places the development of adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) in their social context. It begins by highlighting the intense social and political polarization that currently exists around environmenta...
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Value Judgments in Environmental Risk Assessments
Risk assessments play an important role in decisions about how to regulate environmental pollutants that contribute to climate change as well as to other human and environmental health threats. While the proce...
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Climate Geoengineering
Climate geoengineering is in many ways a “poster child” for the value of the argumentative approach to decision analysis. It is fraught with so many different kinds of uncertainty that the reductive approach d...
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Financial Conflicts of Interest and Criteria for Research Credibility
The potential for financial conflicts of interest (COIs) to damage the credibility of scientific research has become a significant social concern, especially in the wake of high-profile incidents involving the...
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Risk, Precaution, and Nanotechnology
One of the primary concerns regarding emerging technologies is the ecological and human health impacts that engineered chemicals and materials can have when released into the environment. In this chapter, Kevi...
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Ethical and Societal Values in Nanotoxicology
This chapter has explored a variety of ways that ethical and societal values associated with environmental policy making move “upstream” into the practice of policy-relevant scientific research. In the case of...
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Addressing conflicts of interest in nanotechnology oversight: lessons learned from drug and pesticide safety testing
Financial conflicts of interest raise significant challenges for those working to develop an effective, transparent, and trustworthy oversight system for assessing and managing the potential human health and e...
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An ethics of expertise based on informed consent
Ethicists widely accept the notion that scientists have moral responsibilities to benefit society at large. The dissemination of scientific information to the public and its political representatives is centra...
