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. INDICE: Notes on Contributors - Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the Social Sciences and Democracy; J.Van Bouwel - PART I:DEMOCRATIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: BALANCING EXPERTISE AND DIALOGUE - Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to Dialogue; P.Baert, H.Mateus Jerónimo ; A.Shipman - Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public Participation in Science; S.Solomon - Scientific Knowledge: A Stakeholder Theory; K.Rolin - PART II: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IMPROVING DEMOCRATICTHEORY AND PRACTICE - Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Scienceand Normative Ideals; J.Bohman - Fact and Value in Democratic Theory; H.Kincaid - PART III: DEMOCRATIC THEORY ELUCIDATING SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND PRACTICE - The Problem With(Out) Consensus: The Scientific Consensus, DeliberativeDemocracy and Agonistic Pluralism; J.Van Bouwel - Joint Commitment, Coercion and Freedom in Science - Conceptual Analysis and Case Studies; A.Bouvier - PART IV: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE - Public Sociology and Democratic Theory; S.P.Turner - Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy; E.Weber -Some Economists Rush to Rescue Science From Politics, Only to Discover in Their Haste, They Went to the Wrong Address; P.Mirowski - PART V: (FUTURE) OBSTACLES TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DEMOCRACY - Fuller and Mirowski on the Commercialization of Scientific Knowledge; F.Remedios - Humanity: The Always Already bor Never to be b Object of the Social Sciences?; S.Fuller - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22439-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 280
- Fecha Publicación: 05/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés