Exploring Inductive Risk: Case Studies of Values in Science

Author:   Kevin C. Elliott (Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University) ,  Ted Richards (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo)
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Pages:   312
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
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Author:   Kevin C. Elliott (Associate Professor, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife and the Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University) ,  Ted Richards (Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Waterloo)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.574kg
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9780190467715


ISBN 10:   0190467711
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   14 September 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Foreword, Heather Douglas Contributors Introduction Part I: Weighing Inductive Risk Drug Regulation and the Inductive Risk Calculus Jacob Stegenga Decisions, Decisions: Inductive Risk and the Higgs Boson Kent W. Staley Part II: Evading Inductive Risk Dual Use Research and Inductive Risk David B. Resnik Making Uncertanties Explicit: The Jeffreyan Value-Free Ideal and Its Limits David M. Frank Inductive Risk, Deferred Decisions, and Climate Science Advising Joyce C. Havstad and Matthew J. Brown Part III: The Breadth of Inductive Risk Measuring Inequality: The Roles of Values and Inductive Risk Robin Andreasen and Heather Doty Safe or Sorry? Cancer Screening and Inductive Risk Anya Plutynski Inductive Risk and Values in Composite Outcome Measures Roger Stanev Inductive Risk and the Role of Values in Clinical Trials Robyn Bluhm Part IV: Exploring the Limits of Inductive Risk The Geography of Epistemic Risk Justin B. Biddle and Rebecca Kukla The Inductive Risk of Demasculinization Jack Powers Exploring Inductive Risk: Future Questions Index

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I think the individual chapters in this volume provide a set of interesting and important case studies of non-epistemic values in science. Scientists or philosophers looking for such case studies or for a general understanding of the roles that values can play in scientific practice can benefit from reading any of the chapters in this volume. Philosophers working specifically on inductive risk and the role of values in science, though, will benefit from considering the volume as a whole. What it implicitly shows, and what Biddle and Kukla explicitly argue, is that philosophers of science talking about inductive risk have not, to this point, had a clear idea of precisely what inductive risk is. This volume can, I think, help to start that conversation. --S. Andrew Schroeder, Metascience


During the last two decades, the various challenges of inductive risk have been addressed by a number of philosophers of science in diverse contexts. Thus, it is fortuitous that there is now a volume available providing an overview of the status of the discussion as well as addressing hitherto unanswered questions. It provides useful reading material to classroom teachers who address all sorts of topics on science and values. -- Anna Leuschner and Anke Bueter, Science & Education I think the individual chapters in this volume provide a set of interesting and important case studies of non-epistemic values in science. Scientists or philosophers looking for such case studies or for a general understanding of the roles that values can play in scientific practice can benefit from reading any of the chapters in this volume. Philosophers working specifically on inductive risk and the role of values in science, though, will benefit from considering the volume as a whole. What it implicitly shows, and what Biddle and Kukla explicitly argue, is that philosophers of science talking about inductive risk have not, to this point, had a clear idea of precisely what inductive risk is. This volume can, I think, help to start that conversation. --S. Andrew Schroeder, Metascience


I think the individual chapters in this volume provide a set of interesting and important case studies of non-epistemic values in science. Scientists or philosophers looking for such case studies or for a general understanding of the roles that values can play in scientific practice can benefit from reading any of the chapters in this volume. Philosophers working specifically on inductive risk and the role of values in science, though, will benefit from considering the volume as a whole. What it implicitly shows, and what Biddle and Kukla explicitly argue, is that philosophers of science talking about inductive risk have not, to this point, had a clear idea of precisely what inductive risk is. This volume can, I think, help to start that conversation. * S. Andrew Schroeder, Metascience *


this collection will provide a valuable point of departure for many future debates in the philosophy of cognitive science, and I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to get involved in these debates -- Joe Dewhurst, University of Edinburgh, BJPS Review of books During the last two decades, the various challenges of inductive risk have been addressed by a number of philosophers of science in diverse contexts. Thus, it is fortuitous that there is now a volume available providing an overview of the status of the discussion as well as addressing hitherto unanswered questions. It provides useful reading material to classroom teachers who address all sorts of topics on science and values. -- Anna Leuschner and Anke Bueter, Science & Education I think the individual chapters in this volume provide a set of interesting and important case studies of non-epistemic values in science. Scientists or philosophers looking for such case studies or for a general understanding of the roles that values can play in scientific practice can benefit from reading any of the chapters in this volume. Philosophers working specifically on inductive risk and the role of values in science, though, will benefit from considering the volume as a whole. What it implicitly shows, and what Biddle and Kukla explicitly argue, is that philosophers of science talking about inductive risk have not, to this point, had a clear idea of precisely what inductive risk is. This volume can, I think, help to start that conversation. --S. Andrew Schroeder, Metascience


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Kevin C. Elliott is an Associate Professor with joint appointments in Lyman Briggs College, the Department of Fisheries & Wildlife, and the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University. His publications include Is a Little Pollution Good for You? Incorporating Societal Values in Environmental Research (Oxford University Press, 2011) and A Tapestry of Values: An Introduction to Values in Science (Oxford University Press, 2017). Ted Richards is the editor of Soccer and Philosophy: Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game (Open Court, 2010). He teaches Philosophy at Michigan State University.

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