| Description |
x, 245 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
What science can offer contemporary democracy / Noretta Koertge -- Bouquet of scientific values / Noretta Koertge -- Public reason and democracy : the place of science in maintaining civic friendship / Steven M. DeLue -- Reason and authority in the Middle Ages : the Latin West and Islam / Edward Grant -- Civic virtue and science in prerevolutionary Europe / John C. Moore -- Virtues and the scientific revolution / Rose-Mary Sargent -- Candor and integrity in science / Gerald Holton -- Evolutionary biology and the question of trust / Michael Ruse -- Rise and fall of Emil Konopinski's theory of [beta] decay / Allan Franklin -- Evolutionary ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey / Frederick B. Churchill -- Defending the radical center / Keith Parsons -- Are postmodernist universities and scholarship undermining modern democracy? / Philip A. Sullivan -- Wedge of intelligent design : retrograde science, schooling, and society / Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross -- When science teaching becomes a subversive activity / Pervez Hoodbhoy -- Postmodernism, Hindu nationalism, and "vedic science" / Meera Nanda. |
| Subject |
Political science.
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Civil society.
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Democracy.
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Science -- Political aspects.
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| Added Author |
Koertge, Noretta.
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| ISBN |
0195172248 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0195172256 (acid-free paper) |
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