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

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Summary	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 ...
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
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Subject	Democracy.
	Democracy.
	Relativity.
	Relativity.
	Totalitarianism.
	Totalitarianism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Shekeris, Haris. Science, Democracy and Relativism : The Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443853378
ISBN	9781443862868 (electronic book)
	144386286X (electronic book)
	1306907187 (e-book)
	9781306907187 (e-book)
	9781443853378