The role of the appeal to the transcendent in scholarly discourse on the plausibility of the value-free ideal in scientific inquiry

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dc.contributor.authorRobertson, John
dc.contributor.supervisorMcDonough, Graham P
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-23T19:14:25Z
dc.date.available2016-12-23T19:14:25Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-12-23
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Curriculum and Instructionen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis shows how the appeal to the transcendent characterizes aspects of the debate amongst leading contemporary philosophers of science regarding the value-free ideal and the attendant aim of attaining objective knowledge. It compares the positions of leading feminist philosophers of science (Longino and Harding) with influential figures in the historically rooted Western belief who appeal to the transcendent in the pursuit of knowledge of the necessary and of the contingent. Chapter 2 relates the historically rooted Western belief in appeal to the transcendent in the pursuit of knowledge and includes two components: the pursuit of knowledge of the necessary and knowledge of the contingent. Chapter 3 assesses how contemporary leading feminist philosophers of science have contended with beliefs of influential 20th century thinkers (Weber, Kuhn and Quine) regarding this problem. Through this comparison, I provide commentary on how current leading philosophers of science have addressed the value-free ideal issue through the prism of appeal to transcendent reason as justification, as opposed to the historically rooted appeal to the transcendent itself via reason as justification and how this apparent disparity has bearing on the debate concerning the value-free ideal and the attendant goal of achieving objective knowledge.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0727en_US
dc.description.proquestemailjahn712002@yahoo.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7695
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectObjectivityen_US
dc.subjectValue-neutralityen_US
dc.subjectTranscendenten_US
dc.subjectBackground assumptionsen_US
dc.subjectValuesen_US
dc.titleThe role of the appeal to the transcendent in scholarly discourse on the plausibility of the value-free ideal in scientific inquiryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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