Why Trust Science? Paperback / softback
by Naomi Oreskes
Edited by Stephen Macedo
Part of the The University Center for Human Values Series series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 2 b/w illus. 1 table.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2021
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- ISBN:9780691212265
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:392 pages, 2 b/w illus. 1 table.
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9780691212265
