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9780230224391

The Social Sciences and Democracy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230224391

  • ISBN10:

    0230224393

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-12-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

JEROEN VAN BOUWEL is a post-doctoral fellow at Ghent University, Belgium.

Table of Contents

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