The Social Sciences and Democracy

PATRICK BAERT Fellow and Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, UK JAMES BOHMAN holds the Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at Saint Louis University, USA ALBAN BOUVIER teaches Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France STEVE FULLER Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK HELENA MATEUS JERÓNIMO Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal HAROLD KINCAID Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA PHILIP MIROWSKI Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology and Values, University of Notre Dame, USA FRANCIS REMEDIOS Independent Scholar located in Edmonton, Canada KRISTINA ROLIN Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland ALAN SHIPMAN Lecturer in Economics at the Open University, UK STEPHANIE SOLOMON Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Ethics and Integrity Program at the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, USA STEPHEN TURNER Graduate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA ERIK WEBER Professor in Philosophy of Science at Ghent University, Belgium

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 DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PRACTICE Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Science and 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, Deliberative Democracy 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 – or Never to be – Object of the Social Sciences?; S.Fuller Index