Weinberg, Justin and Elliott, Kevin (2012) Science, Expertise, and Democracy. [Preprint]
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Abstract
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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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Date: | 29 August 2012 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9297 |
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