Science, Freedom, Democracy
Science, Freedom, Democracy by Péter Hartl, published by Routledge in 2021, is a 230-page exploration of the intricate relationship between liberal democracy and scientific research values. This edition delves into how these values can both support and conflict with each other across historical and contemporary contexts, offering a comprehensive overview of the subject.
Readers will find a diverse range of approaches in the chapters, including historical studies, philosophical analysis, and sociological case studies. Topics addressed include academic freedom, public control of science, and the interplay between scientific pluralism and deliberative democracy. The essays collectively illustrate the connections between democratic values and the various epistemic and non-epistemic values associated with science, making this book relevant for scholars and graduate students in fields such as political philosophy, sociology of science, and epistemology.
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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, 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.
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