{"product_id":"objectivity-and-diversity-sandra-harding-9780226241364","title":"Objectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research","description":"Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress otherwise valid dissenting positions. Objectivity is used sometimes to advance democratic agendas, at other times to block them; sometimes for increasing the growth of knowledge, at others to resist it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sandra Harding is not ready to throw out objectivity quite yet. For all of its problems, she contends that objectivity is too powerful a concept simply to abandon. In \u003ci\u003eObjectivity and Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e, Harding calls for a science that is both more epistemically adequate and socially just, a science that would ask: How are the lives of the most economically and politically vulnerable groups affected by a particular piece of research? Do they have a say in whether and how the research is done? Should empirically reliable systems of indigenous knowledge count as \"real science\"? Ultimately, Harding argues for a shift from the ideal of a neutral, disinterested science to one that prizes fairness and responsibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandra Harding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022624136X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226241364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Sandra Harding","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981507035391,"sku":"9780226241364","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d2bb61b-5ef5-4310-b39a-b2010b0beda8.jpg?v=1683255987","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/objectivity-and-diversity-sandra-harding-9780226241364","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}