1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461793203321

Autore

Jasanoff Sheila

Titolo

Science and public reason / / Sheila Jasanoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-52137-7

9786613833822

0-203-11382-9

1-136-28841-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

The earthscan science in society series

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

Science - Social aspects

Technology - Social aspects

Science and state

Technology and state

Public interest

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface by David Winickoff; Acknowledgements; Credits; 1 Reason in practice; 2 Product, process, or programme: three cultures and the regulation of biotechnology; 3 In the democracies of DNA: ontological uncertainty and political order in three states; 4 Restoring reason: causal narratives and political culture; 5 Image and imagination: the formation of global environmental consciousness; 6 Contested boundaries in policy-relevant science; 7 The songlines of risk; 8 Judgment under siege: the three-body problem of expert legitimacy

9 Technologies of humility: citizen participation in governing science10 What judges should know about the sociology of science; 11 Expert games in silicone gel breast implant litigation; 12 The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial; 13 In a constitutional moment: science and social order at the millennium; 14 Afterword; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"This collection of essays explores how democratic governments



construct public reason--that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in making state decisions accountable to citizens. The objective is to investigate what societies do in practice when they claim to be reasoning in the public interest. Methodologically, the book is grounded in the field of science and technology studies (STS). It uses in-depth qualitative studies of legal and political practices to shed light on the cultural construction of public reason and the reasoning political subject"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793886803321

Autore

Nardetto Nicolas

Titolo

Imaging at high angular resolution of stellar surfaces and close environment : Evry Schatzman School 2017 / / Nicolas Nardetto, Yveline Lebreton, and Eric Lagadec, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : EDP Sciences, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

2-7598-2373-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 pages)

Collana

EDP sciences proceedings

Disciplina

522.6

Soggetti

Imaging systems in astronomy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Sponsors -- Scientific Organizing Committee -- Local Organizing Committee -- Figures -- List of participants -- Contents -- Preface -- I Diffraction-dominated observational astronomy -- II Introduction to optical/IR interferometry: history and basic principles -- III Optical Long Baseline Interferometry

Sommario/riassunto

Imaging at high angular resolution (HRA) is a flourishing discipline. High performance instruments like the spectro-polarimeter SPHERE at VLT/ESO has recently been implemented. A harvest of splendid results is continuously coming from interferometry with PIONIER, MATISSE, and now GRAVITY (all at VLTI/ESO), VEGA and JouFlu (CHARA), and at longer wavelengths with ALMA at VLTI/ESO and NOEMA/IRAM. The future is already underway with the very close launch of JWST/NASA, and the



development of ELT at ESO. HRA provides a unique way to study regions of stellar formation, proto-planetary discs as well as the surfaces of stars and their environments. This volume offers lectures given by world experts in the field during the EvrySchatzman School on Stellar Physics (EES 2017) held in Roscoff, France. The addressed topics include a course of introduction to optical/IR interferometry covering the history and basic principles, a course on diffraction-dominated observational astronomy, and a course presenting the principles and instrumentation of optical long baseline interferometry. This book will be a valuable reference for researchers and students in the coming years.