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Uncertainty / Sheila Jasanoff [and others ; edited by Joshua Cohen & Deborah Chasman]
Van Pelt Library Microfiche 951 1994-1996, v.24:no.1 (1999:Feb/Mar)-v.24:no.2 (1999:April/May), v.24:no.5 (1999:Oct/Nov)-v.24no.6 (1999:Dec/2000:Jan) (Some volumes incomplete) v.25 (2000)-v.26 (2001), v.28 (2003/2004:Jan.)-v.32 (2007),v.35 (2010)-v.40 (2015)
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- Format:
- Book
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Jasanoff, Sheila, author.
- Series:
- Boston review ; 0734-2306 Forum 20 (46.4)
- Boston Review / Forum
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Uncertainty.
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Boston Review, 2021.
- Summary:
- From climate change to the pandemic, uncertainty looms large over our public and personal lives. It is also the core feature of democratic life: while democratic governance seemingly heightens individual power, it exposes our life chances to the uncertain activity of others. We do not exercise control over those to whom we appeal, and yet we are constantly dependent on their actions for the goods in life we seek. Sheila Jasanoff opens a forum on uncertainty and democracy in this volume, arguing that ideas around our autonomy, our freedom, and our individual agency, particularly in the United States, obscure our dependence on others in so many ways. To recognize this political emotion is to start to see the transformative potential in uncertainty. The debate that follows explores the ideas about uncertainty and experts in a democracy, as well its scientific, philosophic, and emotional aspects.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Forum Humility in Pandemic Times / Sheila Jasanoff
- Forum Responses The Contours of Ignorance / Zeynep Pamuk
- The Lives of Others / Alexandre White
- Why We Don't Act / Jana Bacevic
- Reaping What We Sow / Jay S. Kaufman
- Final Response / Sheila Jasanoff
- Essays Imagine the Worst / Oded Na'aman
- Risk Society / Caley Horan
- The Limits of Social Science / Lily Hu
- Seeking Certainty in Uncertain Times / Michael Jackson
- What Good Can Dreaming Do? / Annie Howard
- We Don't Know, But Let's Try It / Simon Torracinta.
- Notes:
- Cover title.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781946511669
- 1946511668
- OCLC:
- 1286803177
- Publisher Number:
- 99989813947
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