Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science

Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science

Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science

Science and Moral Imagination: A New Ideal for Values in Science

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Overview

The idea that science is or should be value-free, and that values are or should be formed independently of science, has been under fire by philosophers of science for decades. Science and Moral Imagination directly challenges the idea that science and values cannot and should not influence each other. Matthew J. Brown argues that science and values mutually influence and implicate one another, that the influence of values on science is pervasive and must be responsibly managed, and that science can and should have an influence on our values. This interplay, he explains, must be guided by accounts of scientific inquiry and value judgment that are sensitive to the complexities of their interactions. Brown presents scientific inquiry and value judgment as types of problem-solving practices and provides a new framework for thinking about how we might ethically evaluate episodes and decisions in science, while offering guidance for scientific practitioners and institutions about how they can incorporate value judgments into their work. His framework, dubbed “the ideal of moral imagination,” emphasizes the role of imagination in value judgment and the positive role that value judgment plays in science.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780822946267
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date: 11/17/2020
Series: Science, Values, and the Public
Edition description: 1
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Matthew J. Brown is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Table of Contents

Foreword Kim Stanley Robinson ix

Preface and Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction 3

1 Empirical Science as Practical Inquiry 25

2 The Need for Values in Science: The Contingency Argument 57

3 The Need for a Better Theory of Values 87

4 The Sources and Types of Values in Science 113

5 Value Judgment as Empirical, Imaginative Inquiry 150

6 The Ideal of Moral Imagination 185

Conclusion: Contexts for Moral Imagination in Scientific Practice 217

Glossary of Key Terms 233

Bibliography 243

Index 261

Appendix: The Moral Imagination Framework 269

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