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Science, Democracy and Relativism : the Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology.
Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such a thesis considers scientific knowledge as unashamedly relative; however, this is regarded as a good thing for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation rather than something to ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (243 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443862868 144386286X 1306907187 9781306907187 |