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Science and Public Reason

Science and Public Reason

Jasanoff, Sheila

Hardcover

Series: Earthscan Science in Society

Business GeneralEconomics

ISBN10: 0415524865
ISBN13: 9780415524865
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 26 2012
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The term public reason as used here is not simply a matter of deploying principled arguments that respect the norms of democratic deliberation. Jasanoff investigates what states do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Reason, from this perspective, comprises the institutional practices, discourses, techniques and instruments through which governments claim legitimacy in an era of potentially unbounded risks--physical, political, and moral. Those legitimating efforts, in turn, depend on citizens' acceptance of the forms of reasoning that governments offer. Included here therefore is an inquiry into the conditions that lead citizens of democratic societies to accept policy justification as being reasonable. These modes of public knowing, or civic epistemologies, are integral to the constitution of contemporary political cultures.

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