Uncertainty / Sheila Jasanoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jasanoff, Sheila, author.

Series:

Boston Review / Forum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uncertainty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (83 pages)

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:

Editors' note / Joshua Cohen & Deborah Chasman

Humility in pandemic times / Sheila Jasanoff

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

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:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781946511713

1946511714