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Science, Expertise, and Democracy

Weinberg, Justin and Elliott, Kevin (2012) Science, Expertise, and Democracy. [Preprint]

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The combination of government’s significant involvement in science, science’s significant effects on the public, and public ignorance (of both politics and science) raise important challenges for reconciling scientific expertise with democratic governance. Nevertheless, there have recently been a variety of encouraging efforts to make scientific activity more responsive to social values and to develop citizens’ capacity to engage in more effective democratic governance of science. This essay introduces a special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal on “Science, Expertise, and Democracy,” consisting of five papers that developed from the inaugural Three Rivers Philosophy (TRiP) conference held at the University of South Carolina in April 2011. The pieces range from a general analysis of the in-principle compatibility of scientific expertise and democracy to much more concrete studies of the intersection between scientific practices and democratic values in areas such as weight-of-evidence analysis, climate science, and studies of locally undesirable land uses (LULUs).


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Item Type: Preprint
Creators:
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Weinberg, Justinjustinw@mailbox.sc.edu
Elliott, Kevinke@sc.edu
Keywords: expertise, values, democracy, social epistemology, testimony
Subjects: General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Science and Policy
General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User: Kevin Elliott
Date Deposited: 30 Aug 2012 15:20
Last Modified: 30 Aug 2012 15:20
Item ID: 9297
Subjects: General Issues > Ethical Issues
General Issues > Science and Society
General Issues > Science and Policy
General Issues > Values In Science
Date: 29 August 2012
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9297

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