Scientific values and civic virtues / edited by Noretta Koertge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koertge, Noretta, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Civil society.

Democracy.

Science--Political aspects.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

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:

What science can offer contemporary democracy / Noretta Koertge

A bouquet of scientific values / Noretta Koertge

Public reason and democracy : the place of science in maintaining civic friendship / Steven M. DeLue

Reason and authority in the Middle Ages : the Latin West and Islam / Edward Grant

Civic virtue and science in prerevolutionary Europe / John C. Moore

Virtues and the scientific revolution / Rose-Mary Sargent

Candor and integrity in science / Gerald Holton

Evolutionary biology and the question of trust / Michael Ruse

The rise and fall of Emil Konopinski's theory of [beta] decay / Allan Franklin

The evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey / Frederick B. Churchill

Defending the radical center / Keith Parsons

Are postmodernist universities and scholarship undermining modern democracy? / Philip A. Sullivan

The wedge of intelligent design : retrograde science, schooling, and society / Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross

When science teaching becomes a subversive activity / Pervez Hoodbhoy

Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, and "vedic science" / Meera Nanda.

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