Are We All Scientific Experts Now?

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Beschreibung

To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science's pre-eminence. Revelations such as Climategate, or debates about the safety of the MMR vaccine, have dented our confidence in science.

In this provocative new book Harry Collins seeks to redeem scientific expertise, and reasserts science's special status. Despite the messy realities of day-to-day scientific endeavor, he emphasizes the superior moral qualities of science, dismissing the dubious "default" expertise displayed by many of those outside the scientific community. Science, he argues, should serve as an example to ordinary citizens of how to think and act, and not the other way round.

Über den Autor

Harry Collins is Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES) at Cardiff University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written 17 previous books including the well-known Golem series on science. Harry Collins is continuing his research on the nature of scientific knowledge, on the analysis of expertise and on the sociology of gravitational wave detection.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables page vi

Introduction: The Growing Crisis of Expertise 1

1 Academics and How the World Feels 17

2 Experts 49

3 Citizen Sceptics 80

4 Citizen Whistle-blowers 103

Conclusion: Are We All Experts Now? 115

Notes 133

Bibliography 138

Index 142

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	140 S.
ISBN-13:	9780745682044
ISBN-10:	0745682049
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Collins, Harry
Hersteller:	Polity Press John Wiley & Sons
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Wiley-VCH GmbH, Boschstr. 12, D-69469 Weinheim, product-safety@wiley.com
Maße:	190 x 126 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Harry Collins
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.04.2014
Gewicht:	0,169 kg

Artikel-ID: 132521206