Scientific values and civic virtues [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Noretta Koertge
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Scientific values and civic virtues [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Noretta Koertge
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 300 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political science |
| Civil society | |
| Democracy | |
| Science - Political aspects | |
| Altri autori: |
KoertgeNoretta
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Scientific values and civic virtues |
| ISBN: | 1-281-19696-7 |
| 9786611196967 | |
| 0-19-803846-1 | |
| 1-4237-3405-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809404503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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