Are We All Scientific Experts Now? (häftad)
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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
New Human Frontiers
Antal sidor
140
Utgivningsdatum
2014-02-28
Förlag
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Dimensioner
188 x 122 x 15 mm
Vikt
159 g
ISBN
9780745682044

Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

av Harry Collins, Harry Collins
Häftad,  Engelska, 2014-02-28
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To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science's pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science. In this provocative new book Harry Collins seeks to redeem scientific expertise, and reasserts science's special status. Despite the messy realities of day-to-day scientific endeavor, he emphasizes the superior moral qualities of science, dismissing the dubious "default" expertise displayed by many of those outside the scientific community. Science, he argues, should serve as an example to ordinary citizens of how to think and act, and not the other way round.
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Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written 17 previous books including the well-known Golem series on science. Harry Collins is continuing his research on the nature of scientific knowledge, on the analysis of expertise and on the sociology of gravitational wave detection.

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