Understanding Bias in Scientific Practice

Bibliographic Data

ID10703503
AuthorsNancy E Shaffer (University of California, Davis, corresponding author)
Year1996
Volume63
IssueS3
PagesS89-S97
Publication date1996-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy of Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1086/289940
OpenAlexW2011722239
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited24

Methodological objectivism is a conception of bias which obscures the contingent and limited nature of methodological principles behind the guise of fixed a priori standards. I suggest as an alternative a more flexible view of the operation of bias which I call the attribution model . The attribution model makes explicit the working principles of both parties to an actual charge of bias. It enables those involved to identify the issues in dispute between them, and is the basis for an approach to handling charges of bias within the process of discussion and negotiation which characterizes normal scientific decision-making

A priori and a posteriori · Attribution · Causality (physics) · Economics · Epistemology · Management science · Negotiation · Objectivism · Political science · Process (computing) · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology · Social Psychology