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Can Science Be Objective? Longino's Science as Social Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Sharon L. Crasnow
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Abstract

In Science as Social Knowledge, Helen Longino offers a contextual analysis of evidential relevance. She claims that this “contextual empiricism” reconciles the objectivity of science with the claim that science is socially constructed. I argue that while her account does offer key insights into the role that values play in science, her claim that science is nonetheless objective is problematic.

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REVIEW ESSAY
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 194 - 201
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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