The social sciences and democracy /
"In this book, the contributors present an overview of recent developments in philosophy of science by providing a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy"--Prov...
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Basingstoke, UK ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Where the epistemic and the political meet : an introduction to the social sciences and democracy / Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Social sciences and the democratic ideal : from technocracy to dialogue / Patrick Baert, Helena Matens Jerónimo and Alan Shipman
- Stakeholders or experts? : on the ambiguous implications of public participation in science / Stephanie Solomon
- Scientific knowledge : a stakeholder theory / Kristina Rolin
- Improving democratic practice : practical social science and normative ideals / James Bohman
- Fact and value in democratic theory / Harold Kincaid
- The problem with(out) consensus : the scientific consensus, deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism / Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Joint commitment, coercion and freedom in science : Conceptual analysis and case studies / Alban Bouvier
- Public sociology and democratic theory / Stephen P. Turner
- Varieties of democracy in science policy / Erik Weber
- Some economists rush to rescue science from politics, only to discover in their haste, they went to the wrong address / Philip Mirowski
- Fuller and Mirowski on the commercialization of scientific knowledge / Francis Remedios
- Humanity : the always already, or never to be, object of the social sciences? / Steve Fuller.