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Why democracies need science
- Title
- Why democracies need science / Harry Collins and Robert Evans.
- Author
- Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Evans, Robert (Social scientist)
- Description
- viii, 194 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-189) and index.
- Contents
- Science as a moral choice -- Elective modernism -- Choosing science -- The birds : elective modernism, democracy and science -- Academic context -- Elective modernism in context -- Institutional innovations -- Manifesto.
- Call Number
- JFD 17-3191
- ISBN
- 9781509509607
- 1509509607
- 9781509509614 (pb)
- 1509509615 (pb)
- 9781509509645 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016038437
- OCLC
- 956395600
- Author
- Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943- author.
- Title
- Why democracies need science / Harry Collins and Robert Evans.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [174]-189) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Evans, Robert (Social scientist), author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943- author. Why democracies need science Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017] 9781509509645
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-3191