Exploring inductive risk : case studies of values in science

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)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Inference.
Science > Philosophy.
Science > Methodology.
Inference
Science > Methodology
Science > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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