Imperfect Oracle The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
01.08.2009
Abbildungen
Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Verlag
Pennsylvania St Univ PrSeitenzahl
333
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/16/2.8 cm
Gewicht
653 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-271-03535-2
Science and its offshoot, technology, enter into the very fabric of our society in so many ways that we cannot imagine life without them. We are surrounded by crises and debates over climate change, stem-cell research, AIDS, evolutionary theory and intelligent design, the use of DNA in solving crimes, and many more. Society is virtually forced to follow our natural tendency, which is to give great weight to the opinions of scientific experts. How is it that these experts have come to acquire such authority, and just how far does their authority reach? Does specialized knowledge entitle scientists to moral authority as well? How does scientific authority actually function in our society, and what are the countervailing social forces (deriving from law, politics, and religion) with which it has to contend? Brown seeks to answer such questions in this magisterial work of synthesis about the role of science in society.
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