Science, Democracy and Relativism : the Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology.
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TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (243 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781443862868
- 144386286X
- 1306907187
- 9781306907187
- Democracy
- Relativity
- Totalitarianism
- Relativité
- Totalitarisme
- totalitarianism
- Science funding & policy
- Interdisciplinary studies
- Social & political philosophy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- Democracy
- Relativity
- Totalitarianism
- Philosophy
- Philosophy & Religion
- Speculative Philosophy
- 320.1 23
- JC423 .S384 2014
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Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such a thesis considers scientific knowledge as unashamedly relative; however, this is regarded as a good thing for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation rather than something to ...
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English.
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