Exploring inductive risk : case studies of values in science /

Exploring inductive risk : case studies of values in science /

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Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, ©2017.
Description:xvi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Inference.
Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Methodology.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12731089
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Other authors / contributors:Elliott, Kevin Christopher, editor.
Richards, Ted, 1968- editor.
ISBN:9780190467722
019046772X
9780190467715
0190467711
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:Science is the most reliable means available for understanding the world around us and our place in it. But, since science draws conclusions based on limited empirical evidence, there is always a chance that a scientific inference will be incorrect. That chance, known as inductive risk, is endemic to science.Though inductive risk has always been present in scientific practice, the role of values in responding to it has only recently gained extensive attention from philosophers, scientists, and policy-makers. Exploring Inductive Risk brings together a set of eleven concrete case studies with the goals of illustrating the pervasiveness of inductive risk, assisting scientists and policymakers in responding to it, and moving theoretical discussions of this phenomenon forward. The case studies range over a wide variety of scientific contexts, including the drug approval process, high energy particle physics, dual-use research, climate science, research on gender disparities in employment, clinical trials, and toxicology.The book includes an introductory chapter that provides a conceptual introduction to the topic and a historical overview of the argument that values have an important role to play in responding to inductive risk, as well as a concluding chapter that synthesizes important themes from the book and maps out issues in need of further consideration.-- Publisher.
Standard no.:40027358812
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. Exploring Inductive Risk: An Introduction
  • Part 1. Weighing Inductive Risk
  • 2. Drug Regulation and the Inductive Risk Calculus
  • 3. Decisions, Decisions: Inductive Risk and the Higgs Boson
  • Part 2. Evading Inductive Risk
  • 4. Dual-Use Research and Inductive Risk
  • 5. Making Uncertainties Explicit: The Jeffreyan Value-Free Ideal and Its Limits
  • 6. Inductive Risk, Deferred Decisions, and Climate Science Advising
  • Part 3. The Breadth of Inductive Risk
  • 7. Measuring Inequality: The Roles of Values and Inductive Risk
  • 8. Safe or Sorry? Cancer Screening and Inductive Risk
  • 9. Inductive Risk and Values in Composite Outcome Measures
  • 10. Inductive Risk and the Role of Values in Clinical Trials
  • Part 4. Exploring the Limits of Inductive Risk
  • 11. The Geography of Epistemic Risk
  • 12. The Inductive Risk of "Demasculinization"
  • 13. Exploring Inductive Risk: Future Questions
  • Index

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