| Description |
1 online resource (x, 245 pages) : illustrations |
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What science can offer contemporary democracy / Noretta Koertge -- A bouquet of scientific values / Noretta Koertge -- Public reason and democracy : the place of science in maintaining civic friendship / Steven M. DeLue -- Reason and authority in the Middle Ages : the Latin West and Islam / Edward Grant -- Civic virtue and science in prerevolutionary Europe / John C. Moore -- Virtues and the scientific revolution / Rose-Mary Sargent -- Candor and integrity in science / Gerald Holton -- Evolutionary biology and the question of trust / Michael Ruse -- The rise and fall of Emil Konopinski's theory of [beta] decay / Allan Franklin -- The evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey / Frederick B. Churchill -- Defending the radical center / Keith Parsons -- Are postmodernist universities and scholarship undermining modern democracy? / Philip A. Sullivan -- The wedge of intelligent design : retrograde science, schooling, and society / Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross -- When science teaching becomes a subversive activity / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, and "vedic science" / Meera Nanda |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Political science.
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Civil society.
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Democracy.
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Science -- Political aspects
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Democracy
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democracy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Civil society
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Democracy
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Political science
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Science -- Political aspects
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Naturwissenschaften
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Sozialethik
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Sozialphilosophie
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Wissenschaftsphilosophie
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Wetenschap.
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Democratie.
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Wisselwerking.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Koertge, Noretta
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| LC no. |
2004058133 |
| ISBN |
9780198038467 |
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0198038461 |
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142373405X |
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9781423734055 |
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0195172256 |
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9780195172256 |
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0195172248 |
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9780195172249 |
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0199835543 |
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9780199835546 |
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