Why trust science? / Naomi Oreskes.
"Do doctors really know what they are talking about when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when our own politicians don't? In this landmark book, Naomi Oreskes offer...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | University Center for Human Values series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Stephen Macedo
- Why trust science? : perspectives from the history and philosophy of science
- Science awry
- Coda: Values in science
- Comments. The epistemology of frozen peas : innocence, violence, and everyday trust in twentieth-century science / Susan Lindee ; What would reasons for trusting science be? / Marc Lange ; Pascal's wager reframed : toward trustworthy climate policy assessments for risk societies / Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch ; Comments on the present and future of science, inspired by Naomi Oreskes / Jon A. Krosnick
- Response. Reply
- Afterword.