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SUMMARY:The problem of inductive risk and the ethics of communication - St
 ephen John (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Philosophers of science long ago rejected the distinction betw
 een contexts of discovery and of justification. More recently\, many have 
 challenged the claim that the practice of science ought to be free of non-
 cognitive ethical or political values. My aim in this talk is to defend th
 e 'value-free ideal' for science against one attack – the argument from 
 inductive risk – by appeal to a distinction between different contexts o
 f scientific activity. Specifically\, I argue that close attention to the 
 norms which ought to govern the context of scientific communication can pr
 ovide second-order value-considerations in favour of a first-order value-f
 ree science. Along the way\, I point to some more general lessons about th
 e proper role of values in science and the need to distinguish different f
 orms of communication\, particularly in health and environmental contexts.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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