In this paper, we will focus on a specific way in which non-epistemic values can influence scientific inquiry, i.e., how they affect the way in which members of a scientific community apply epistemic values. We will first introduce the concept of epistemic niche construction in science, that is, the idea that the epistemic commitments underlying the practice of a scientific community result from a feedback-loop process between the scientific practice itself and the related disciplinary matrix. We will then describe how non-epistemic values can affect the different steps of this feedback-loop process. We will substantiate our argumentation through a historical case study: the rise and fall of nineteenth-century craniology.

在本文中，我们将重点介绍非认识价值观影响科学探究的具体方式，即它们如何影响科学界成员应用认识价值观的方式。我们将首先介绍科学中认识生态位构建的概念，即科学界实践背后的认识承诺是科学实践本身和相关学科矩阵之间的反馈循环过程的结果。然后，我们将描述非认知价值如何影响这个反馈循环过程的不同步骤。我们将通过一个历史案例研究来证实我们的论点：19 世纪颅骨学的兴衰。