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Environmental Justice, Values, and Scientific Expertise
- Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 22, Number 2, June 2012
- pp. 163-182
- 10.1353/ken.2012.0010
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This essay compares two philosophical proposals concerning the relation between values and science, both of which reject the value-free ideal but nevertheless place restrictions on how values and science should interact. The first of these proposals relies on a distinction between the direct and indirect roles of values, while the second emphasizes instead a distinction between epistemic and nonepistemic values. We consider these two proposals in connection with a case study of disputed research on the topic of environmental justice and argue that the second proposal has several advantages over the first.