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Science, Freedom, Democracy

Adam Tamas Tuboly editor Péter Hartl editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:22nd Mar '21

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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.

"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."

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ISBN: 9780367418175

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

230 pages