Advocates or unencumbered selves? On the role of Mill's political liberalism in Longino's contextual empiricism
| Title: | Advocates or unencumbered selves? On the role of Mill's political liberalism in Longino's contextual empiricism |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Publication Date: | December 2010 |
| Published In: | Philosophy of Science |
| Description: | Helen Longino's "contextual empiricism" is one of the most sophisticated recent attempts to defend a social theory of science. On this view, objectivity and epistemic acceptability require that research be produced within communities that approximate a Millian marketplace of ideas. I argue, however, that Longino's embedding of her epistemology within the framework of Mill's political liberalism implies a conception of individual epistemic agents that is incompatible with her view that scientific knowledge is necessarily social, and I begin to articulate an alternative conception that is better suited to a truly social theory of science. |
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| Citation: | Philosophy of Science. 76. Issue 5. 612 - 623. ISSN 0031-8248. |
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