Minority Report - Dissent and Diversity in Science

This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in Science and Technology Studies and examining numerous case studies.

List of contents

1. Minority Report: Research Programmes and the Debate about Climate Change

2. Generating Challenges to Dominant Ideas: Lakatos and Feyerabend's Dialectical Alternative

3. Making Anomalies Work: Dialectical Engagement versus Anomaly-Mongering in Evolutionary Biology

4. Members Only: Wittgensteinian Sociology and the Debate about Carbohydrates and Fat

5. The Place of Science and the Turn to Material Practice: A Lab of One's Own for Patient Activists

6. Counterfactuals and Second-Guessing Scientists and Engineers: Green Chemistry, the Precautionary Principle, and Social Movements in the History of Science

7. Commodification and the Erosion of the Scientific Ethos

Bibliography

Index

About the author

William T. Lynch is ASsociate Professor in the Department of History at Wayne State University.

Product details

• Authors: William T. Lynch, Lynch William T.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781786612373
• ISBN: 978-1-78661-237-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Collective Studies in Knowledge and Society; Collective Studies in Knowledg
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SCIENCE / Study & Teaching, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge