Environmental Justice, Values, and Scientific Expertise

This essay compares two philosophical proposals concerning the relation between values and science, both of which reject the value-free ideal but nevertheless place restrictions on how values and science should interact. The first of these proposals relies on a distinction between the direct and ind...

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Authors: Steel, Daniel (Author) ; Whyte, Kyle Powys (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 2012
In: Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Year: 2012, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 163-182
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Summary:This essay compares two philosophical proposals concerning the relation between values and science, both of which reject the value-free ideal but nevertheless place restrictions on how values and science should interact. The first of these proposals relies on a distinction between the direct and indirect roles of values, while the second emphasizes instead a distinction between epistemic and nonepistemic values. We consider these two proposals in connection with a case study of disputed research on the topic of environmental justice and argue that the second proposal has several advantages over the first.
ISSN:1086-3249
Contains:Enthalten in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics journal
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1353/ken.2012.0010