Why Democracies Need Science - Couverture rigide

Collins, Harry; Evans, Robert

 
9781509509607: Why Democracies Need Science
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1509509607 ISBN 13 : 9781509509607
Editeur : Polity Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 by values that should matter to all, they show how science can support democracy without destroying it and propose a new institution - The Owls - that can mediate between science and society and improve technological decision-making for the benefit of all.

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À propos de l?auteur

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 Reader in Sociology at Cardiff University

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Éditeur
Polity Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1509509607
ISBN 13 
9781509509607
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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ISBN 10 :  1509509615 ISBN 13 :  9781509509614
Editeur : Polity, 2017
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