Science, Freedom, Democracy

This book explores the complex relationship between liberal democracy and scientific research, examining how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another in historical and contemporary contexts. Contributors utilize various approaches to address topics such as academic freedom, public control of science, scientific pluralism, lay-expert relations, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 25 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This book delves into the intricate interplay between the values of liberal democracy and the principles associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values either reinforce or clash with each other, both in historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors employ diverse methodologies to address this pressing topic, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a wide array of subjects, such as academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together, the essays illustrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected.

Science, Freedom, Democracy will be of great interest to scholars and graduate students engaged in the philosophy of science, the history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367704001