The Ideal of Socially Responsible Science: Reply to Dupré, Rolin, Solomon, and Giere

The goal of Philosophy of Science after Feminism is to provide the blueprint for a philosophy of science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the philosophy of science we have now, a philosophy of science that can help to promote a science more socially engaged and socially responsible than the science we have now. A central part of this venture is the ideal of socially responsible science, an ideal that evokes a set of interrelated concerns in the minds (and comments) of John Dupré, Kristina Rolin, Miriam Solomon, and Ron Giere. In this paper I set out to answer these concerns and make explicit exactly what is in the offing if I have succeeded.