Heather Douglas

Heather Douglas is a philosopher of science best known for her work on the role of values in science, on science policy, on the importance of science for policymaking, and on the history of the philosophy of science. She is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University, and formerly held the Waterloo Chair in Science and Society at the University of Waterloo, and taught at the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Puget Sound. She is the author of Science, Policy and the Value Free Ideal (2009), an influential book on how values do and should influence science in the context of policy.