Why Trust Science? (eBook)

Naomi Oreskes (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22237-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength-and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: The University Center for Human Values Series
• Reihe/Serie: The University Center for Human Values Series
• Zusatzinfo: 2 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Adverse effect • Adviser • American Association for the Advancement of Science • americans • AMGEN • authoritarianism • biologist • biomedicine • Blind experiment • Bruno Latour • Cambridge University Press • climate change • climatology • Continental Drift • Covid-19 • Criticism • Decision-Making • dental floss • distrust • Empirical Evidence • Empiricism • Environmental Impact Assessment • Environmentalist • Epistemology • Eugenics • Experiment • Explanation • fallacy • Funding • Funding of science • geneticist • global warming • Governance • Graduate school • Greenhouse Gas • Helen Longino • History and Philosophy of Science • Ideology • Institution • Karl Popper • Lecture • Logical Positivism • Ludwik Fleck • Merchants of Doubt • Methodology • Misuse of statistics • Morality • Naomi Oreskes • National Science Foundation • Ottmar Edenhofer • Paradigm Shift • Pascal's Wager • Peer Review • Philosopher • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Physician • physicist • Political Psychology • Political Science • Politics • Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research • Princeton University • Psychology • Publication • Public Health • Public Policy • Rationality • reason • replication crisis • reproducibility • result • Sandra Harding • Science • Science Studies • science, technology and society • scientific community • SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS • scientific evidence • Scientific Method • Scientific opinion on climate change • Scientific progress • Scientific Revolution • scientific theory • Scientist • skepticism • Social Science • Sociology • statistical significance • Suggestion • sunburn • Sunscreen • Symptom • Tax • Technology • theory • Thomas Kuhn • Thought • Vaccination • Vetting
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22237-1 / 0691222371
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22237-0 / 9780691222370