Rejecting the Ideal of Value-Free Science

Value-Free Science?: Ideals and Illusions

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Douglas, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Nonepistemic values; Objectivity; Reasoning; Value free ideal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920389780     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195308969.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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