On "Value-Laden" Science
Zina B. Ward,
PhilSci Archive,
May 12, 2021
"Equivocation about the relationship between values and choices has led to rampant confusion and misunderstanding in the literature on values in science," writes Zina B. Ward (19 page PDF). So she proposes and argues for a four-part taxonomy to make this clear: "values can motivate, justify, cause, or be impacted by the choices we make." She then applies this taxonomy to a discussion of "inductive risk", that is, "the potential consequences of mistakenly accepting a false claim or rejecting a true one." How do our values related to the indctive risk we are willing to tolerate in different circumstances? It's an interesting discussion and of course is relevant to the discussion of the relation between values and other things - educational technology, say, or learning theories.
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