Exploring inductive risk : case studies of values in science / edited by Kevin C. Elliott, Ted Richards.

This work brings together 11 case studies of inductive risk - the chance that scientific inference is incorrect - that range over a wide variety of scientific contexts and fields. The chapters are designed to illustrate the pervasiveness of inductive risk, assist scientists and policymakers in respo...

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Other Authors: Elliott, Kevin Christopher (Editor, Contributor), Richards, Ted, 1968- (Editor, Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
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520 8 |a This work brings together 11 case studies of inductive risk - the chance that scientific inference is incorrect - that range over a wide variety of scientific contexts and fields. The chapters are designed to illustrate the pervasiveness of inductive risk, assist scientists and policymakers in responding to it, and productively move theoretical discussions of the topic forward. 
505 0 |a Foreword / Heather Douglas -- Contributors -- Introduction / Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards -- Part I: Weighing Inductive Risk. Drug Regulation and the Inductive Risk Calculus / Jacob Stegenga ; Decisions, Decisions: Inductive Risk and the Higgs Boson / Kent W. Staley -- Part II: Evading Inductive Risk. Dual Use Research and Inductive Risk / David B. Resnik ; Making Uncertainties Explicit: The Jefferyan Value-Free Ideal and Its Limits / David M. Frank ; Inductive Risk, Deferred Decisions, and Climate Science Advising / Matthew J. Brown and Joyce C. Havstad -- Part III: The Breadth of Inductive Risk. Measuring Inequality: The Roles of Values and Inductive Risk / Robin Andreasen and Heather Doty ; Safe or Sorry? Cancer Screening and Inductive Risk / Anya Plutynski ; Inductive Risk and Values in Composite Outcome Measures / Roger Stanev ; Inductive Risk and the Role of Values in Clinical Trials / Robyn Bluhm -- Part IV: Exploring the Limits of Inductive Risk. The Geography of Epistemic Risk / Justin B. Biddle and Rebecca Kukla ; The Inductive Risk of / Jack Powers ; Exploring Inductive Risk: Future Questions / Kevin C. Elliott and Ted Richards -- Index. 
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