Ecology, Values, and Objectivity: Advancing the Debate
Ecology, Values, and Objectivity: Advancing the Debate
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生态学、价值观和客观性:推进辩论
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2005
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S. Moore
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T. Wallington;S. Moore
Abstract We add to current discussions about the interface between ecology, values, and objectivity by reporting on a novel Delphi-based study of the scientific reasoning employed by a group of eight ecologists as they collectively considered current ecological thinking. We rely on contextual empiricism, with its features of multiple ways of relating theory to reality and science as a social activity, to provide a richer understanding of scientific objectivity. This understanding recognizes the place and contributions of values and, in so doing, moves the discussion beyond whether or not science is “value neutral.”