Scientific Values and Civic Virtues
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517224-9 (ISBN)
There has been much debate recently about the relationship between science and politics. This volume of essays takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science (such as honesty and precision of language) and the nature of civil society. The contributors - who include philosophers, political scientists, feminist theorists, physicists and engineers - argue that science can broadly inspire the civic virtues of an educated and tolerant global enterprise dedicated to the common good.
Noretta Koertge is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and editor of A House Built on Sand (OUP, 1998).
Noretta Koertge, Indiana University: What Science Can Offer Contemporary Democracy
PART 1: The Nexus Between Scientific Values and Civic Virtues
1: Noretta Koertge: A Bouquet of Scientific Values
2: Steven M. DeLue, Miami University: Public Reason and Democracy: The Place of Science in Maintaining Civic Friendship
3: Edward Grant, Indiana University: Reason and Authority in the Middle Ages: the Latin West and Islam
4: John C. Moore, Hofstra University: Civic Virtue and Science in Pre-Revolutionary Europe
5: Rose-Mary Sargent, Merrimack College: Virtues and the Scientific Revolution
PART II: Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists
6: Gerald Holton, Harvard University: Candor and Integrity in Science
7: Michael Ruse, Florida State University: Evolutionary Biology an the Question of Trust
8: Allan Franklin, University of Colorado: The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinski's Theory of Decay
9: Frederick B. Churchill, Indiana University: The Evolutionary Ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey
PART III: Sites of Struggle: Downgrading Science while Weakening Democracy
10: Keith Parsons, University of Houston, Clear Lake: Defending the Radical Center
11: Philip A. Sullivan, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies: Are Universities and Scholarship Now Undermining Modern Democracy?
12: Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisiana University, and Paul R. Gross, University of Virginia: The Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science, Schooling, and Society
13: Pervez Hoodbhoy, Quaid-e-Azum University: When Science Teaching Becomes a Subversive Activity
14: Meera Nanda, Columbia University: Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism and 'Vedic Science'
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 25.8.2005 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 maps, numerous line drawings |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 231 x 155 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Technik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-517224-8 / 0195172248 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-517224-9 / 9780195172249 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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