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Are We All Scientific Experts Now? - Couverture rigide

Collins, Harry

 
9780745682037: Are We All Scientific Experts Now?
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0745682030 ISBN 13 : 9780745682037
Editeur : Polity Press, 2014

Synopsis

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science's pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science.

In this provocative new book Harry Collins seeks to redeem scientific expertise, and reasserts science's special status. Despite the messy realities of day-to-day scientific endeavor, he emphasizes the superior moral qualities of science, dismissing the dubious "default" expertise displayed by many of those outside the scientific community. Science, he argues, should serve as an example to ordinary citizens of how to think and act, and not the other way round.

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À propos de l'auteur

Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written 17 previous books including the well-known Golem series on science. Harry Collins is continuing his research on the nature of scientific knowledge, on the analysis of expertise and on the sociology of gravitational wave detection.

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0745682030
ISBN 13 
9780745682037
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
140
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Personne responsable
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