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Hanna argues for the importance of Kant's theories of the epistemological, metaphysical, and practical foundations of the 'exact sciences'. This book aims to work out the elements of a nonreductive Kantian account of the foundations of the exact sciences

Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Talking Social Work Science -- 2. Doing Social Work Science -- 3. Historical Moments for Social Work and Science -- 4. Technology and Social Work -- 5. The Social Work Science Community: Controversies and Cooperation -- 6. Social Work Science and Evidence -- 7. Social Work Science and Understanding -- 8. Social Work Science and Justice -- 9. Impacts and Influences -- Appendix. Writing Social Work Science -- Notes -- References -- Index

BACKGROUND: The open science movement is transforming scientific practice with the goal of enhancing the transparency, productivity, and reproducibility of research. Nevertheless, transparency is a complex concept, and efforts to promote some forms of transparency may do relatively little to advance other important forms of transparency. OBJECTIVES: Drawing from the literature in history, philosophy, and sociology of science, we aim to distinguish between different forms of scientific transparency. Our goal is to identify strategies for achieving forms of transparency that are relevant not only to scientists but also to decision makers and members of the public. DISCUSSION: We draw a distinction between "scientifically relevant transparency" and "socially relevant transparency." Most of the prominent strategies associated with the open science movement (e.g., making data publicly available and registering studies) are designed primarily to promote scientifically relevant transparency. To achieve socially relevant transparency, which is particularly important in fields like environmental health, further steps are needed to provide scientific information in ways that are relevant to decision makers and members of the public. CONCLUSIONS: Promoting socially relevant transparency will require a range of activities by many different individuals and institutions. We propose an array of strategies that can be pursued by scientists and other scholars, journals, universities, funders, government agencies, and members of the public. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP4808

According to Andre Gorz (eg, see Paths to Paradise, London: Pluto, 1985) & others, socially useful labor is ceasing to be a central value in human life. Here, such views are criticized, & an account of work & leisure based on the philosophies of G. W. F. Hegel & Karl Marx is presented. Although work is necessary & is social, it is not thereby unfree. Through work, new needs develop, which Gorz sees as a source of suffering & unfreedom. However, new needs constitute a positive development of human nature: they go together with the growth of new powers & are the basis of real freedom. Leisure is not identical with the mere absence of work, but is a historically developed sphere & a product of modern industry. Leisure is of value only in the context of work, as its complement. Modified AA