The social sciences and democracy / edited by Jeroen Van Bouwel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouwel, Jeroen van.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

ix, 268 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

"In this book, the contributors present an overview of recent developments in philosophy of science by providing a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Where the epistemic and the political meet : an introduction to the social sciences and democracy / Jeroen Van Bouwel

Social sciences and the democratic ideal : from technocracy to dialogue / Patrick Baert, Helena Matens Jerónimo and Alan Shipman

Stakeholders or experts? : on the ambiguous implications of public participation in science / Stephanie Solomon

Scientific knowledge : a stakeholder theory / Kristina Rolin

Improving democratic practice : practical social science and normative ideals / James Bohman

Fact and value in democratic theory / Harold Kincaid

The problem with(out) consensus : the scientific consensus, deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism / Jeroen Van Bouwel

Joint commitment, coercion and freedom in science : Conceptual analysis and case studies / Alban Bouvier

Public sociology and democratic theory / Stephen P. Turner

Varieties of democracy in science policy / Erik Weber

Some economists rush to rescue science from politics, only to discover in their haste, they went to the wrong address / Philip Mirowski

Fuller and Mirowski on the commercialization of scientific knowledge / Francis Remedios

Humanity : the always already, or never to be, object of the social sciences? / Steve Fuller.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230224391

0230224393

OCLC:

463307416