title: Values, standpoints, and scientific/intellectual movements.
abstract: Feminist standpoint empiricism contributes to the criticism of the value-free ideal by offering a unique analysis of how non-epistemic values can play not only a legitimate but also an epistemically productive role in science. While the inductive risk argument focuses on the role of non-epistemic values in the acceptance of hypotheses, standpoint empiricism focuses on the role of non-epistemic values in the production of evidence. And while many other analyses of values in science focus on the role of non-epistemic values either in an individual scientist's decision making or in the distribution of research efforts in scientific communities, standpoint empiricism focuses on the role of non-epistemic values in the building of scientific/intellectual movements.
authors.affiliation: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, P.O. Box 4, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Electronic address: kristina.rolin@helsinki.fi.
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rolin
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D019513:Feminism; D019359:Knowledge; D010684:Philosophy; D012106:Research; D012306:Risk; D012586:Science; D012945:Social Values
keywords: Feminist standpoint theory; Political sociology of science; Scientific/intellectual movements; Social epistemology; Values in science