id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_2jcvsxf77ncxflficodprhjjyy Kristen Intemann Feminism, Underdetermination, and Values in Science 2005 13 .pdf application/pdf 5084 305 47 Thus there is no need to appeal to contextual values in order to fill the gap between theory and evidence. value-free view of science rests on the claim that contextual value judgments play no legitimate role in theory justification. will argue that for each interpretation, the gap argument does not successfully establish that it would ever be legitimate for contextual values One interpretation of the claim that contextual value judgments fill the gap between theory and observation is Contextual values may cause scientists or scientific communities to interpret data in certain ways, or to rely on certain background assumptions However, proponents of the value-free view will argue that contextual values do not provide the right kind of reason to accept a theory. Nelson argue that contextual value judgments can play a role as background assumptions in determining what we take to be evidence for or ./cache/work_2jcvsxf77ncxflficodprhjjyy.pdf ./txt/work_2jcvsxf77ncxflficodprhjjyy.txt