Work In Progress
with
Rebecca Korf, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science
presenting
Values, Science, and Medicine Through a Social Lens
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
12:00-1:00pm
Join Us Virtually
One of the clearest arenas in which we can see the interplay between science, society, and values is in medical practice. The philosophical subfield of values in science investigates the relationship between social and personal values and scientific practice. A subset of this literature attempts to construct criteria for when value influence in science is acceptable and when it is not acceptable. This literature almost exclusively focuses on the decisions of individual scientists. However, I argue that it is important to consider the social dimensions of value influence in science.
Rebecca Korf is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, where she investigates the ways in which our values and assumptions affect scientific practice and how we should respond to this influence. She holds an M.A. in Environmental Philosophy from the University of Montana, a B.S. in Biochemistry from Whitworth University, and will start a visiting position at Whitworth in fall 2024.