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Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science - A New Framework to Assess Interest Influences in Scientific Research Processes (Hardcover)
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Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science - A New Framework to Assess Interest Influences in Scientific Research Processes (Hardcover)
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Scientific research is often influenced by financial interests,
political interests, or personal career interests of the scientists
involved. For instance, the pharmaceutical giant Merck manipulated
clinical trial data in order to make sure that data confirmed the
safety of one of its products, Vioxx, in order to serve the
company's short-term commercial interests. This case is obviously
unacceptable. But why exactly is it unacceptable? One way to
account for this judgment is on the basis of the ideal of purity.
According to this ideal, scientific decision-making should be pure-
that is, unaffected by financial interests, political interests,
career interests, and so on. Although this ideal is questionable,
many people (including philosophers of science) still hold on to
it. In Interests and Epistemic Integrity in Science: A New
Framework to Assess Interest Influences in Scientific Research
Processes, Jan De Winter first argues that it is better to fully
abandon the ideal of purity, then proposes an alternative ideal to
assess interest influences in science: the ideal of epistemic
integrity. He spells out and systematically defends a new concept
of epistemic integrity, using it not only to analyze the Vioxx
debacle, but also to identify unacceptable interest influences in
aerospace science, climate science, and biology, and to explain
exactly why these interest influences are unacceptable. These
analyses make a compelling case for the new concept of epistemic
integrity which will be interesting and useful for philosophers of
science, scientists, engineers, science policymakers, and anyone
else concerned about the integrity of science.
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