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Scientific Choice, Its Effects of Values and Its Effects on Science

Asadpour, Majid | 2015

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 47324 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Golshani, Mehdi
  7. Abstract:
  8. This thesis seeks to demonstrate the importance (important status) of “subject” and “question” in science and also wants to show that choosing this issue is affected by values. There are various values, especially outside of science, which play role in subject choices made by scientists, scientific institutions and scientific policies, and therefore influence science by this way. So after giving an account of the term “scientific choice”, which has been proposed by Alvin Weinberg in 1963, we try to examine the impact of values on scientific choices and then the impact of these choices on science itself. In order to do this, we introduced choices in science and Weinberg’s index for them in chapters one and two. We have a sociological review of impressive factors in scientific choices in chapter three based on a qualitative method. In final chapter, we have a philosophical review of the relation between science and value as well as more detailed study of this interaction in the context of scientific choice. Therefore in the final conclusion this result will achieve that firstly, vast of values affect the scientific choice and secondly, the scientific choice is an appropriate way for enter of values to science. It means that the extra-scientific values can affect science through scientific choice and guide it in desirable orientation or divert it in other directions
  9. Keywords:
  10. Scientific Choice ; Subject ; Question ; Science and Value Relation ; Weinberg Method

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