LEADER 03496nam 22006974a 450 001 9910809404503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-19-029148-6 010 $a1-281-19696-7 010 $a9786611196967 010 $a0-19-803846-1 010 $a1-4237-3405-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000024634 035 $a(EBL)3051952 035 $a(OCoLC)62288153 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000089459 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11130427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000089459 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10088874 035 $a(PQKB)10625880 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000075426 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3051952 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10091849 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL119696 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3051952 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000024634 100 $a20040811d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aScientific values and civic virtues /$fedited by Noretta Koertge 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-983554-3 311 $a0-19-517225-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""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"" 327 $a""7 Evolutionary Biology and the Question of Trust""""8 The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinskia???s Theory of ? 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 a???a???Vedic Sciencea???a???""; ""Index"" 327 $a""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"" 330 8 $aThe 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. 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aCivil society 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aScience$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aCivil society. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aScience$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a300 701 $aKoertge$b Noretta$01613680 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809404503321 996 $aScientific values and civic virtues$93943107 997 $aUNINA