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Christian J Feldbacher-Escamilla, Knowledge and values: A re-entanglement in epistemic regimes, Science and Public Policy, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 67–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz047
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Abstract
Knowledge and values are the two main ingredients of public decision-making. In the past, the predominant paradigm of such decision-making was based on an approach of value-neutral science and aimed at processing both ingredients in a disentangled way. However, this approach has some theoretical and practical drawbacks, for which reason several alternative paradigms of public decision-making arose. In this paper we highlight the importance of another paradigm of such decision-making within so-called epistemic regimes. We do so against the background of the discussion of value-neutral science and provide a conceptual analysis of the notion of a regime which allows us to outline the underlying structure of re-entangling knowledge and values in epistemic regimes.