Libro Are We All Scientific Experts Now? De Harry Collins

portada Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Polity

Autor

Harry Collins

N° páginas

168

Encuadernación

Paper

ISBN

0745682049

ISBN13

9780745682044

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología

Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

Harry Collins (Autor) · Polity · Paper

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Reseña del libro "Are We All Scientific Experts Now?"

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 Sciences 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 Sciences 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