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Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781616144074ISBN-10:1616144076UPC:9781616144074Book Category:Science, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology, PoliticalBook Topic:Social TheorySize:9.24 x 6.35 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCEQPGWAEC
Science in a Democratic Society
In this successor to his pioneering Science, Truth, and Democracy, the author revisits the topic explored in his previous work-namely, the challenges of integrating science, the most successful knowledge-generating system of all time, with the problems of democracy. But in this new work, the author goes far beyond that earlier book in studying places at which the practice of science fails to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Prometheus BooksISBN-13:9781616144074ISBN-10:1616144076UPC:9781616144074Book Category:Science, Social Science, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Philosophy & Social Aspects, Sociology, PoliticalBook Topic:Social TheorySize:9.24 x 6.35 x 0.88 inchesWeight:1.131Product ID:SCEQPGWAEC
Philip Kitcher (New York, NY) is John Dewey Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the author of twelve books, including Living with Darwin: Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith; In Mendel's Mirror: Philosophical Reflections on Biology; Science, Truth, and Democracy; and The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities. Professor Kitcher was the first...
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