Scientific Values and Civic Virtues

Informationen zum Autor Noretta Koertge is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University and editor of A House Built on Sand (OUP, 1998). Klappentext There has been much debate recently about the relationship between science and politics. This volume of contributed essays takes an affirming, positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science (such as honesty and precision of language) and the nature of civil society. The contributors--who include philosophers, political scientists, feminist theorists, physicists and engineers-- argue that science can broadly inspire the civic virtues of an educated and tolerant global enterprise dedicated to the common good. Zusammenfassung Presents essays that take a positive view of the relationship between the values embodied in science and the nature of civil society. The contributors to this book argue that science can broadly inspire the civic virtues of an educated and tolerant global enterprise dedicated to the common good.

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• Authors: Noretta Koertge, Noretta (Professor of History and Philoso Koertge
• Assisted by: Noretta Koertge (Editor), Noretta (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science Koertge (Editor), Koertge Noretta (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.08.2005
• EAN: 9780195172249
• ISBN: 978-0-19-517224-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), Philosophy of Science, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Engineering: general