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100 1 $aCollins, H. M.$q(Harry M.),$d1943-$eauthor.
245 10 $aWhy democracies need science /$cHarry Collins and Robert Evans.
264 1 $aCambridge, UK ;$aMalden, MA, USA :$bPolity Press,$c2017.
264 4 $c©2017
300 $aviii, 194 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 153-189) and index.
505 0 $aPart I. Introduction -- Science as a moral choice -- Part II. Elective modernism -- Choosing science -- Elective modernism, democracy and science -- Part III. Academic context -- Elective modernism in context -- Institutional innovations -- Manifesto -- Elective modernism and democracy.
520 8 $aWe live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspected of working to hidden agendas or serving vested interests. The solution is usually seen as more public scrutiny and more control by democratic institutions experts must be subservient to social and political life. In this book, Harry Collins and Robert Evans take a radically different view. They argue that, rather than democracies needing to be protected from science, democratic societies need to learn how to value science in this new age of uncertainty. By emphasizing that science is a moral enterprise, guided by values that should matter to all, they show how science can support democracy without destroying it and propose a new institution The Owls that can mediate between science and society and improve technological decision-making for the benefit of all.
650 0 $aDemocracy and science.
650 0 $aScience$xPolitical aspects.
650 0 $aScience and state.
650 7 $aDemocracy and science.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01199876
650 7 $aScience and state.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01108536
650 7 $aScience$xPolitical aspects.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01108343
700 1 $aEvans, Robert,$eauthor.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aCollins, H.M. (Harry M.), 1943- author.$tWhy democracies need science.$dCambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, [2017]$z9781509509645$w(DLC) 2016055612
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