Scientific values and civic virtues / edited by Noretta Koertge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koertge, Noretta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Civil society.

Democracy.

Science--Political aspects.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The contributors - who include philosophers, political scientists, feminist theorists, physicists & engineers - argue that science can broadly inspire the civic virtues of an educated & tolerant global enterprise dedicated to the common good.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""What Science Can Offer Contemporary Democracy ""; ""Part I: The Nexus between Scientific Values and Civic Virtues""; ""1 A Bouquet of Scientific Values""; ""2 Public Reason and Democracy: The Place of Science in Maintaining Civic Friendship""; ""3 Reason and Authority in the Middle Ages: The Latin West and Islam""; ""4 Civic Virtue and Science in Prerevolutionary Europe""; ""5 Virtues and the Scientific Revolution""; ""Part II: Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists""; ""6 Candor and Integrity in Science""

""7 Evolutionary Biology and the Question of Trust""""8 The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinskiâ€?s Theory of β Decay""; ""9 The Evolutionary Ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey""; ""Part III: Sites of Struggle: Downgrading Science While Weakening Democracy""; ""10 Defending the Radical Center""; ""11 Are Postmodernist Universities and Scholarship Undermining Modern Democracy?""; ""12 The Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science, Schooling, and Society""; ""13 When Science Teaching Becomes a Subversive Activity""; ""14 Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism, and â€?â€?Vedic Scienceâ€?â€?""; ""Index""

""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-029148-6

1-281-19696-7

9786611196967

0-19-803846-1

1-4237-3405-X

OCLC:

62288153