ABSTRACT
Many authors argue for the importance of greater transparency in science. This chapter outlines some of these claims, and some of the dangers of transparency, paying particular attention to debates over the proper role of non-epistemic values in science. The first section of this chapter provides a taxonomy of forms of transparency, their benefits and costs. The second section of this chapter discusses the relationship between transparency and worries that “value-laden science” threatens autonomy. The third section of this chapter discusses various aspects of the relationship between transparency and trust.
Readers may be interested in these Handbook chapters as well: Justin B. Biddle, “Artificial Intelligence: Values, Governance, and Policy”; Bennett Holman and T. Y. Branch, “Reflecting on Responses to the New Demarcation Problem”; Kristina Rolin, “Values in Research Ethics Education.”
