Part II - Good Science
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2022
Summary
What I have claimed so far is that scientism, objectivism, and instrumentalism can interfere with our ability to attend to our responsibilities as scientists. These can insulate us from critique, from our own moral perceptions and commitments, and from having to acknowledge the injustices inscribed in our hidden values. These assumptions about science are also simply distortions. Science has never been beyond or above values or politics and “scientific knowledge cannot be fully understood apart from its deployments in particular material, intellectual, and social contexts” (Longino, 2002, p. 9). If we look closely at what really happens when we do science, we will not see an algorithmic, “self-correcting” machine of context-independent discovery; we will see a delicate and unknowably complex architecture of embodied human interpretations, interpersonal commitments and negotiations, and historically specific institutional concretions.
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- Good SciencePsychological Inquiry as Everyday Moral Practice, pp. 39 - 86Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022