ABSTRACT

Exploring the role of values in scientific inquiry, Hugh Lacey examines the nature and meaning of values, and looks at challenges to the view, posed by postmodernists, feminists, radical ecologists, Third-World advocates and religious fundamentalists, that science is value free. He also focuses on discussions of 'development', especially in Third World countries. This paperback edition includes a new preface.

chapter 1|22 pages

Introduction

The idea that science is value free

chapter 2|22 pages

Values

chapter 3|22 pages

Cognitive values

chapter 4|22 pages

Science as value free: provisional theses

chapter 5|22 pages

Scientific understanding

chapter 6|36 pages

The control of nature

chapter 8|20 pages

A “grassroots empowerment” approach

chapter 9|22 pages

A feminist approach

chapter 10|30 pages

Science as value free: revised theses

chapter 11|6 pages

Conclusion