The Error Is in the Gap: Synthesizing Accounts for Societal Values in Science

Philosophy of Science 85 (4):704-725 (2018)
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Abstract

Kevin Elliott and others separate two common arguments for the legitimacy of societal values in scientific reasoning as the gap and the error arguments. This article poses two questions: How are these two arguments related, and what can we learn from their interrelation? I contend that we can better understand the error argument as nested within the gap because the error is a limited case of the gap with narrower features. Furthermore, this nestedness provides philosophers with conceptual tools for analyzing more robustly how values pervade science.

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Christopher ChoGlueck
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

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