[MD] Science and Values

[Krimel]

[Arlo]
This struck some MOQ chords with me.

http://www1.umn.edu/ships/ethics/values.htm 

[Marsha]
It's a very fair article. Thanks for posting it.   
 
[Krimel]
Is that fair as in one thumb up and one thumb down? Or fair as in just? I
thought it was excellent and fair as in just. It would be hopelessly
optimistic to think Platt would find an answer in it to his repeated
confusion about the scientific answers to childish "Why?" questions. But the
answer is certainly there.

I thought his "cognitive resources" sounded identical to Pirsig's
intellectual glasses and found this particularly to the point:

"An individual's cognitive resources will be drawn from his or her culture,
limiting what any one person can contribute to science. Further, because
each person's biography and intellectual training are unique, cognitive
resources will differ from individual to individual, even within the same
culture. Hence, one may well expect disagreement or variation in
interpretation in any scientific community. Far from being an obstacle to
developing consensus, however, the variation of a community can be a
valuable resource. That is, only conclusions that are robust across varying
interpretations will tend to be widely perpetuated"