This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts.The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected.Science, Freedom, Democracy will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of science, history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology.
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This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies.
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1. Science, Freedom, Democracy: IntroductionPéter Hartl and Adam Tamas TubolyPart I. Academic Freedom and Other Values in Science and Society2. Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical Vision of Science and SocietyPhil Mullins3. The Ethos of Science and Central Planning: Merton and Michael Polanyi on the Autonomy of SciencePéter Hartl4. Scientific Freedom and Social Responsibility Heather Douglas5. Bacon’s PromiseJanet KouranyPart II: Democracy and Citizen Participation in Science6. Which Science, Which Democracy, and Which Freedom?Hans Radder7. Participatory Democracy and Multi-Strategic ResearchHugh Lacey8. Public Opinion, Democratic Legitimacy, and Epistemic CompromiseDustin OlsonPart III: Freedom and Pluralism in Scientific Methodology and Values9. Are Transparency and Representativeness of Values Hampering Scientific Pluralism?Jeroen Van Bouwel10. Max Weber’s Value-Judgment and the Problem of Science Policy-makingLidia Godek
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"Hartl and Tuboly edited this timely collection of ten essays examining the tangled connections between the principles of liberal democracy and those of scientific research. This text is an important compilation of current scholarship on how the values of liberal democracy and the values of scientific research can either support each other or be in conflict. Summing up: Recommended."CHOICE
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ISBN
9780367418175
Publisert
2021-03-22
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
230

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Péter Hartl is a research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group. His research focuses on epistemology and the history of philosophy (Hume, Michael Polanyi). He published papers on Polanyi, Hume, and modal epistemology. He co-edited "The Value of Truth" special issue for Synthese. His monograph on Hume is under contract.

Adam Tamas Tuboly is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, Research Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, MTA BTK Lendület Morals and Science Research Group, and a research fellow at the Institute of Transdisciplinary Discoveries, Medical School, University of Pécs. He works on the history of logical empiricism and has edited numerous volumes on it.