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|Title=The social dimensions of scientific knowledge
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=Helen Longino,
|Year=2015
|Abstract=Study of the social dimensions of scientific knowledge encompasses the
effects of scientific research on human life and social relations, the effects
of social relations and values on scientific research, and the social aspects
of inquiry itself. Several factors have combined to make these questions
salient to contemporary philosophy of science. These factors include the
emergence of social movements, like environmentalism and feminism,
critical of mainstream science; concerns about the social effects of
science-based technologies; epistemological questions made salient by big
science; new trends in the history of science, especially the move away
from internalist historiography; anti-normative approaches in the
sociology of science; turns in philosophy to naturalism and pragmatism.
This entry reviews the historical background to current research in this
area and features of contemporary science that invite philosophical
attention.
|URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/scientific-knowledge-social/
|Collection=Zalta (Ed.) (2016)
}}
|Title=The social dimensions of scientific knowledge
|Resource Type=collection article
|Author=Helen Longino,
|Year=2015
|Abstract=Study of the social dimensions of scientific knowledge encompasses the
effects of scientific research on human life and social relations, the effects
of social relations and values on scientific research, and the social aspects
of inquiry itself. Several factors have combined to make these questions
salient to contemporary philosophy of science. These factors include the
emergence of social movements, like environmentalism and feminism,
critical of mainstream science; concerns about the social effects of
science-based technologies; epistemological questions made salient by big
science; new trends in the history of science, especially the move away
from internalist historiography; anti-normative approaches in the
sociology of science; turns in philosophy to naturalism and pragmatism.
This entry reviews the historical background to current research in this
area and features of contemporary science that invite philosophical
attention.
|URL=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/scientific-knowledge-social/
|Collection=Zalta (Ed.) (2016)
}}