Scientists as prophets : a rhetorical genealogy /

In this work, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to 17th-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olman, Lynda C. (Lynda Christine), 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Science > Social aspects > Forecasting.
Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects.
Sciences > Aspect social > Prévision.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Social Aspects.
Science > Social aspects > Forecasting
Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy
  • The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos
  • The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy
  • Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society
  • Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22
  • J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet
  • Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet
  • Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science"
  • Climate change and the technologies of prophecy
  • Postlude: problems and solutions.

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