The Social Sciences and Democracy

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ISBN: 9780230224391 | 0230224393
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/15/2009

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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.

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Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the Social Sciences and Democracy	p. 1
Democratizing the Social Sciences: Balancing Expertise and Dialogue
Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to Dialogue	p. 17
Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public Participation in Science	p. 39
Scientific Knowledge: A Stakeholder Theory	p. 62
The Social Sciences Improving Democratic Theory and Practice
Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Science and Normative Ideals	p. 83
Fact and Value in Democratic Theory	p. 104
Democratic Theory Elucidating Social Scientific Theory and Practice
The Problem With(out) Consensus: The Scientific Consensus, Deliberative Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism	p. 121
Joint Commitment, Coercion and Freedom in Science; Conceptual Analysis and Case Studies	p. 143
The Democratic Governance of Social Science
Public Sociology and Democratic Theory	p. 165
Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy	p. 181
Some Economists Rush to Rescue Science from Politics, Only to Discover in Their Haste, They Went to the Wrong Address	p. 195
(Future) Obstacles to the Social Sciences and Democracy
Fuller and Mirowski on the Commercialization of Scientific Knowledge	p. 229
Humanity: The Always Already - Or Never to Be - Object of the Social Sciences?	p. 240
Index	p. 265
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