Science, freedom, democracy

Science, freedom, democracy : introduction / Péter Hartl and Adam Tamas Tuboly -- Michael Polanyi's post-critical vision of science and society / Phil Mullins -- The ethos of science and central planning : Merton and Michael Polanyi on the autonomy of science / Péter Hartl -- Scientific freedom and social responsibility / Heather Douglas -- Bacon's promise / Janet Kourany -- Which science, which freedom, and which democracy? / Hans Radder -- Participatory democracy and multi-strategic research / Hugh Lacey -- Are transparency and representativeness of values hampering scientific pluralism? / Dustin Olson -- Are transparency and representativeness of values hampering scientific pluralism? / Jeroen Van Bouwel -- Max Weber's value-judgment and the problem of science policy-making / Lidia Godek.

"This book addresses the complex relationship between the values of liberal democracy and the values associated with scientific research. The chapters explore how these values mutually reinforce or conflict with one another, in both historical and contemporary contexts. The contributors utilize various approaches to address this timely subject, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. The chapters cover a range of topics including academic freedom and autonomy, public control of science, the relationship between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy, lay-expert relations in a democracy, and the threat of populism and autocracy to scientific inquiry. Taken together the essays demonstrate how democratic values and the epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science are interconnected. Science, Freedom, and Democracy will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working in philosophy of science, history of philosophy, sociology of science, political philosophy, and epistemology"

Includes bibliographical references and index.