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In defence of the value free ideal
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In this paper, the authors argue that value-laden decisions can be systematically avoided by making uncertainties explicit and articulating findings carefully such uncertainty articulation, understood as a methodological strategy, is exemplified by the current practice of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).Abstract:
The ideal of value free science states that the justification of scientific findings should not be based on non-epistemic (eg moral or political) values It has been criticized on the grounds that scientists have to employ moral judgements in managing inductive risks The paper seeks to defuse this methodological critique Allegedly value-laden decisions can be systematically avoided, it argues, by making uncertainties explicit and articulating findings carefully Such careful uncertainty articulation, understood as a methodological strategy, is exemplified by the current practice of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)read more
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The IPCC and the new map of science and politics
Silke Beck,Martin Mahony +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the place of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) within the science and politics of climate change in the context of a post-Paris polycentric governance regime and the culture of "post-truth" politics.
Does climate adaptation policy need probabilities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed three key questions: (1) Why might we (not) need probabilities of climate change? (2) What are the problems in estimating probabilities? (3) How are researchers...
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Distinguishing between legitimate and illegitimate values in climate modeling
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that non-epistemic values can play important roles in modeling decisions, particularly in addressing uncertainties, and that the presence of such values will lead to bias or give scientists disproportionate power in deciding what values ought to be endorsed.
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Philosophy and the Precautionary Principle: Science, Evidence, and Environmental Policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the history of the precaution controversy, the unity of the principle of precaution, the historical argument for precaution, scientific uncertainty, value-free ideal, and uncertainty factors.
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Epistemic trust and the ethics of science communication: against transparency, openness, sincerity and honesty
TL;DR: This paper used the case of climate science to argue against the notion that scientists should hold certain communicative virtues, such as sincerity, openness, honesty and transparency, and argued that they should be held to a higher moral standard.
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Risk, Uncertainty and Profit
TL;DR: In Risk, Uncertainty and Profit, Frank Knight explored the riddle of profitability in a competitive market profit should not be possible under competitive conditions, as the entry of new entrepreneurs would drive prices down and nullify margins, however evidence abounds of competitive yet profitable markets as mentioned in this paper.
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
TL;DR: The Routledge Classics Edition Preface 1. Socrates' Question 2.The Archimedian Point 3. Foundations: Well-Being 4. Style of Ethical Theory 5. Theory and Prejudice 7. The Linguistic Turn 8. Knowledge, Science, Convergence 9. Relativism and Reflection as mentioned in this paper.
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Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Alan Gewirth,Bernard Williams +1 more
TL;DR: The Routledge Classics Edition Preface 1. Socrates' Question 2.The Archimedian Point 3. Foundations: Well-Being 4. Style of Ethical Theory 5. Theory and Prejudice 7. The Linguistic Turn 8. Knowledge, Science, Convergence 9. Relativism and Reflection as discussed by the authors.
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Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry
TL;DR: In this paper, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope and depth is incapable of ruling out the influence of social and cultural values in the very structuring of knowledge.