title: 'Holding' and 'endorsing' claims in the course of scientific activities.
abstract: My principal aims are to show that holding, adopting and endorsing (definitions of which I provide) are distinct cognitive attitudes that may be taken towards claims at different moments of scientific activities, and that none of them are reducible to acceptance (as defined by Jonathan Cohen); to explore in detail the differences between holding and accepting, using the controversies about GMOs to provide illustrations; and to draw some implications pertinent to democratic decision-making concerning public policies about science and technology, and to the responsibilities that scientists thereby incur.
authors.affiliation: Swarthmore College, United States; University of São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: hlacey1@swarthmore.edu.
authors.forename: Hugh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Lacey
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D030781:Organisms, Genetically Modified / Q000523:psychology*; D012586:Science
keywords: Accepting theories; Cognitive attitudes; Endorsing theories; Holding theories; Responsibilities of scientists; Values in science