Science, Democracy and Relativism :: the Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology.

Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such...

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1. Verfasser: Shekeris, Haris
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
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Zusammenfassung:Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such a thesis considers scientific knowledge as unashamedly relative; however, this is regarded as a good thing for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation rather than something to ...
Beschreibung:1 online resource (243 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443862868
144386286X
1306907187
9781306907187

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