Research Catalog

Title

Scientific values and civic virtues / edited by Noretta Koertge.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Koertge, Noretta.

Description

x, 245 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Political science
• Civil society
• Democracy
• Science > Political aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What science can offer contemporary democracy / Noretta Koertge -- A bouquet of scientific values / Noretta Koertge -- Public reason and democracy : the place of science in maintaining civic friendship / Steven M. DeLue -- Reason and authority in the Middle Ages : the Latin West and Islam / Edward Grant -- Civic virtue and science in prerevolutionary Europe / John C. Moore -- Virtues and the scientific revolution / Rose-Mary Sargent -- Candor and integrity in science / Gerald Holton -- Evolutionary biology and the question of trust / Michael Ruse -- The rise and fall of Emil Konopinski's theory of [beta] decay / Allan Franklin -- The evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey / Frederick B. Churchill -- Defending the radical center / Keith Parsons -- Are postmodernist universities and scholarship undermining modern democracy? / Philip A. Sullivan -- The wedge of intelligent design : retrograde science, schooling, and society / Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross -- When science teaching becomes a subversive activity / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, and "vedic science" / Meera Nanda.

Call Number

JFE 05-10786

ISBN

• 0195172256 (acid-free paper)
• 0195172248 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2004058133

OCLC

56324190

Title

Scientific values and civic virtues / edited by Noretta Koertge.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Koertge, Noretta.

Research Call Number

JFE 05-10786