The social sciences and democracy [Texte imprimé] /
edited by Jeroen Van Bouwel
- Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
- 1 vol. (IX-268 p.) ; 23 cm
Bibliogr. en fin de chaque communication
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.
"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.