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Collins, Harry; Evans, Prof Robert

 
9781509509614: Why Democracies Need Science
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ISBN 10: 1509509615 ISBN 13: 9781509509614
Editorial: Polity, 2017

Sinopsis

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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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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Editorial
Polity
Año de publicación
2017
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1509509615
ISBN 13 
9781509509614
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
208
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