03496nam 22006974a 450 991080940450332120200520144314.00-19-029148-61-281-19696-797866111969670-19-803846-11-4237-3405-X(CKB)1000000000024634(EBL)3051952(OCoLC)62288153(SSID)ssj0000089459(PQKBManifestationID)11130427(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089459(PQKBWorkID)10088874(PQKB)10625880(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075426(Au-PeEL)EBL3051952(CaPaEBR)ebr10091849(CaONFJC)MIL119696(MiAaPQ)EBC3051952(EXLCZ)99100000000002463420040811d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrScientific values and civic virtues /edited by Noretta Koertge1st ed.Oxford ;New York Oxford University Pressc20051 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-983554-3 0-19-517225-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""What Science Can Offer Contemporary Democracy ""; ""Part I: The Nexus between Scientific Values and Civic Virtues""; ""1 A Bouquet of Scientific Values""; ""2 Public Reason and Democracy: The Place of Science in Maintaining Civic Friendship""; ""3 Reason and Authority in the Middle Ages: The Latin West and Islam""; ""4 Civic Virtue and Science in Prerevolutionary Europe""; ""5 Virtues and the Scientific Revolution""; ""Part II: Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists""; ""6 Candor and Integrity in Science""""7 Evolutionary Biology and the Question of Trust""""8 The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinskiâ€?s Theory of β Decay""; ""9 The Evolutionary Ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey""; ""Part III: Sites of Struggle: Downgrading Science While Weakening Democracy""; ""10 Defending the Radical Center""; ""11 Are Postmodernist Universities and Scholarship Undermining Modern Democracy?""; ""12 The Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science, Schooling, and Society""; ""13 When Science Teaching Becomes a Subversive Activity""; ""14 Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism, and â€?â€?Vedic Scienceâ€?â€?""; ""Index""""A""""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""The contributors - who include philosophers, political scientists, feminist theorists, physicists & engineers - argue that science can broadly inspire the civic virtues of an educated & tolerant global enterprise dedicated to the common good.Political scienceCivil societyDemocracySciencePolitical aspectsPolitical science.Civil society.Democracy.SciencePolitical aspects.300Koertge Noretta1613680MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809404503321Scientific values and civic virtues3943107UNINA