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cognitive/epistemic value

📖 Definitions

Longino: Cognitive/epistemic values/virtues are they are properties that theories can have or can have to a greater or lesser degree, and t are desiderata. Typically because considered conductive to truth, but n.b. also import significant socio-political values. Not context-independent and universally applicable.

Carrier: Epistemic values relate to obtaining knowledge or understanding (not truth per se), express requirements of significance/pursuit/non-triviality and confirmation/relevance of evidence "We are the ones who make a choice of the kind of knowledge we prefer" (Carrier 2013, 2555).

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📚 References

  • 'Carrier, Martin. 2013. “Values and Objectivity in Science: Value-Ladenness, Pluralism and the Epistemic Attitude.” Science & Education 22 (10): 2547–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-012-9481-5.'
  • 'Longino, Helen E. 1996. “Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy.” In Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, edited by Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2_3.'
    - Carrier, Martin. “Values and Objectivity in Science: Value-Ladenness, Pluralism and the Epistemic Attitude.” Science & Education 22, no. 10 (2013): 2547–68. https: doi.org/10.1007/s11191-012-9481-5. 
    Longino, Helen E. “Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Values in Science: Rethinking the Dichotomy.” In Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science, edited by Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Jack Nelson. Springer, 1996. https:doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1742-2_3.