This volume investigates the long-standing assumption that scientific objectivity requires the total exclusion of values from research processes. The contributors, including Alison Wylie, John Dupre, and Harold Kincaid, draw upon contemporary science studies to challenge the traditional ideal of value-free science. They present a series of arguments examining how values inevitably permeate scientific inquiry and what this means for the pursuit of objective knowledge.

Experts recognize this collection as a significant contribution to the philosophy of science, particularly for its nuanced approach to the objectivity debate. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, making it most suitable for students and scholars in the field of science studies.