Scientists, Democracy and Society A Community of Inquirers /

• Main Author: Barrotta, Pierluigi (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences, 16
• Subjects: Social sciences-Philosophy.; Communication.; Mass media.; Culture.; Technology.; Philosophy and science.; Social Philosophy.; Media and Communication.; Media Sociology.; Culture and Technology.; Philosophy of Science.

This monograph examines the relationship between science and democracy. The author argues that there is no clear-cut division between science and the rest of society. Rather, scientists and laypeople form a single community of inquiry, which aims at the truth. To defend his theory, the author shows...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Hume's "law" and the ideal of value-free science
• Chapter 2. Concepts, values and scientific measurements
• Chapter 3. Values and inductive risk
• Chapter 4. Scientific research and the truth
• Chapter 5. Values and autonomy of science
• Chapter 6. Science, democracy and pragmatism.