Why Democracies Need Science
We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions experts must be subservient to social and political life.In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be protected from science, democratic societies need to learn how to value science in this new age of uncertainty. By emphasizing that science is a moral enterprise, guided…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Collins, Harry
- ISBN: 978-1-5095-0962-1
- EAN: 9781509509621
- Produktnummer: 26469311
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'526 KB
Über den Autor
Harry Collins is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. Robert Evans is Professor in Sociology at Cardiff University.
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