| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Controversies (CVS) ethics and interdisciplinarity,
1574-1583 ;
volume 13
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Controversies ; volume 13.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword : like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants / Giovanni Scarafile -- Introduction : the relationship between science and democracy : harmonic and confrontational conceptions / Pierluigi Barrotta -- The dam project : who are the experts? : a philosophical lesson from the Vajont disaster / Pierluigi Barrotta and Eleonora Montuschi -- Rational decisions in a disagreement with experts / Istvssn Danka -- Rethinking the notion of public : a pragmatist account / Roberto Gronda -- The expert you are (not) : citizens, experts and the limits of science communication / Selene Arfini and Tommaso Bertolotti -- Decisions without scientists? : two case studies about GM plants and invasive acacia in Hungary / Anna Petschner -- Save the planet, win the election : a paradox of science and democracy, an Israeli perpetuum mobile and Donald Trump / Aviram Sariel -- Science and the source of legitimacy in democratic regimes / Oded Balaban -- The ethics of communication and the Terra Terra Project / Giovanni Scarafile and Maria Elena Latino -- The political use of science : the historical case of Soviet cosmology / Mauro Stenico -- The dialectical legacy of epigenetics / Flavio D'abramo. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- Political aspects -- Case studies.
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Science -- Political aspects. |
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Case studies.
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| Subject |
Science. |
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Science -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
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Democracy and science -- Case studies.
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Democracy and science. |
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Science and state -- Case studies.
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Science and state. |
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Science -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
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Science -- Public opinion. |
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Specialists -- Public opinion -- Case studies.
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Specialists. |
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Public opinion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Barrotta, Pierluigi, editor.
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Scarafile, Giovanni, editor.
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| ISBN |
9789027264046 (electronic book) |
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902726404X (electronic book) |
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9789027200747 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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