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The Social Sciences and Democracy

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Jeroen Van Bouwel

    1. Ghent University, Belgium

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the Social Sciences and Democracy

    1. Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the Social Sciences and Democracy

      • Jeroen Van Bouwel
      Pages 1-13

  3. Democratizing the Social Sciences: Balancing Expertise and Dialogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to Dialogue

      • Patrick Baert, Helena Mateus Jeronimo, Alan Shipman
      Pages 17-38

    3. Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public Participation in Science

      • Stephanie Solomon
      Pages 39-61

    4. Scientific Knowledge: A Stakeholder Theory

      • Kristina Rolin
      Pages 62-80

  4. The Social Sciences Improving Democratic Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Science and Normative Ideals

      • James Bohman
      Pages 83-103

    3. Fact and Value in Democratic Theory

      • Harold Kincaid
      Pages 104-117

  5. Democratic Theory Elucidating Social Scientific Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
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    2. The Problem With(out) Consensus: The Scientific Consensus, Deliberative Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism

      • Jeroen Van Bouwel
      Pages 121-142

    3. Joint Commitment, Coercion and Freedom in Science: Conceptual Analysis and Case Studies

      • Alban Bouvier
      Pages 143-161

  6. The Democratic Governance of Social Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-163
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    2. Public Sociology and Democratic Theory

      • Stephen P. Turner
      Pages 165-180

    3. Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy

      • Erik Weber
      Pages 181-194

    4. Some Economists Rush to Rescue Science from Politics, Only to Discover in Their Haste, They Went to the Wrong Address

      • Philip Mirowski
      Pages 195-226

  7. (Future) Obstacles to the Social Sciences and Democracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. Fuller and Mirowski on the Commercialization of Scientific Knowledge

      • Francis Remedios
      Pages 229-239

    3. Humanity: The Always Already — Or Never to Be — Object of the Social Sciences?

      • Steve Fuller
      Pages 240-264

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 265-268
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About this book

Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ghent University, Belgium

    Jeroen Van Bouwel

About the editor

PATRICK BAERT Fellow and Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, UK JAMES BOHMAN holds the Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at Saint Louis University, USA ALBAN BOUVIER teaches Philosophy of Social Science at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France STEVE FULLER Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK HELENA MATEUS JERÓNIMO Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal HAROLD KINCAID Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA PHILIP MIROWSKI Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Centre for Science, Technology and Values, University of Notre Dame, USA FRANCIS REMEDIOS Independent Scholar located in Edmonton, Canada KRISTINA ROLIN Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Helsinki School of Economics, Finland ALAN SHIPMAN Lecturer in Economics at the Open University, UK STEPHANIE SOLOMON Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Ethics and Integrity Program at the Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research, University of Michigan, USA STEPHEN TURNER Graduate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA ERIK WEBER Professor in Philosophy of Science at Ghent University, Belgium

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