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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Other Authors: Bouwel, Jeroen van
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.