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SUMMARY:Sisyphean science: why value freedom is worth pursuing - Jacob Ste
 genga (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:_Coauthored with Tarun Menon (School of Humanities\, National 
 Institute of Advanced Studies\, Bengaluru)_\n\nThe value-free ideal in sci
 ence has been criticised as both unattainable and undesirable. We argue th
 at it can be defended as a practical principle guiding scientific research
  even if the unattainability and undesirability of a value-free end-state 
 are granted. If a goal is unattainable\, then one can separate the desirab
 ility of accomplishing the goal from the desirability of pursuing it. The 
 state with the ideal degree of value involvement cannot be given an indepe
 ndent characterisation\, and cannot serve as an action-guiding target\, so
  it can only reliably be attained if scientists treat value-freedom as the
 ir goal.
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