Why Trust Science?

Why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthyAre doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revealing why the social character of scientific knowledge is its greatest strength-and the greatest reason we can trust it. Tracing the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, this timely and provocative book features a new preface by Oreskes and critical responses by climate experts Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch, political scientist Jon Krosnick, philosopher of science Marc Lange, and science historian Susan Lindee, as well as a foreword by political theorist Stephen Macedo.

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Naomi Oreskes with a new preface by the author

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Naomi Oreskes, Ottmar Edenhofer, Jon Krosnick, M. Susan Lindee, Marc Lange, Oreskes Naomi
• Con la collaborazione di: Stephen Macedo (Editore)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.04.2021
• Categoria: Saggistica; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780691212265
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21226-5
• Numero di pagine: 392
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 14 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
• Serie: The University Center for Human Values Series
• Categorie: Religion, Libido, popular science, SCIENCE / History, Science, Bruno Latour, ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Philosophy of Science, stress management, paradigm shift, Blaise Pascal, Scientist, History of Science, Thomas Robert Malthus, Leon Festinger, Thomas Kuhn, Thought, Chemical Industry, Science Communication, Hypothesis, Distrust, Helen Longino, Pierre Duhem, Ludwik Fleck, Disenchantment, Scientific racism, grandiosity, Good and evil, eugenics, Holism, Normal Science, Scientific controversy, Logical positivism, Wilfrid Sellars, underdetermination, Suicidal Ideation, Peter Duesberg, Scientific theory, Moral relativism, Superiority (short story), Relationship between religion and science, On Truth, State of Fear, Pascal's Wager, Reasonable person, the road to serfdom, agnotology, Karl Pearson, Deep History, Working hypothesis, Full disclosure (computer security), The Physicists, Expert elicitation, Good Laboratory Practice, Beyond the Hoax, Scientific opinion on climate change, jonah lehrer, merchants of doubt, against method, Madison Grant, Wrong direction, Theory choice, scientific skepticism, Critical positivity ratio, Larry Laudan, Higher Superstition, Misuse of statistics, When contact changes minds, Precommitment, Buck v. Bell, False prophet, Malthusianism, J. B. S. Haldane