• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Science, Freedom, Democracy

Science, Freedom, Democracy

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

PhilosophyGeneral SociologyHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0367418177
ISBN13: 9780367418175
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 22 2021
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts.

The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Philosophy