The Social Sciences and Democracy [electronic resource] /
Bouwel, Jeroen Van.editor.
Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.
Science
Logic.
Genetic epistemology.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Democracy.
Philosophy of Science.
Logic.
Epistemology.
Social Philosophy.
Democracy.