The Social Sciences and Democracy [Hardcover]

Prominent researchers from philosophy and the social studies of science present a collection of articles that together constitute a systematic and comprehensive investigation of how to understand the relation between the social sciences and democracy.Notes on Contributors Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the Social Sciences and Democracy; J.Van Bouwel PART I: DEMOCRATIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: BALANCING EXPERTISE AND DIALOGUE Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to Dialogue; P.Baert, H.Mateus Jer?nimo & A.Shipman Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public Participation in Science; S.Solomon Scientific Knowledge: A Stakeholder Theory; K.Rolin PART II: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IMPROVING DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PRACTICE Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Science and Normative Ideals; J.Bohman Fact and Value in Democratic Theory; H.Kincaid PART III: DEMOCRATIC THEORY ELUCIDATING SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND PRACTICE The Problem With(Out) Consensus: The Scientific Consensus, Deliberative Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism; J.Van Bouwel Joint Commitment, Coercion and Freedom in Science -?Conceptual Analysis and Case Studies; A.Bouvier PART IV: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Public Sociology and Democratic Theory; S.P.Turner Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy; E.Weber Some Economists Rush to Rescue Science From Politics, Only to Discover in Their Haste, They Went to the Wrong Address; P.Mirowski PART V: (FUTURE) OBSTACLES TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DEMOCRACY Fuller and Mirowski on the Commercialization of Scientific Knowledge; F.Remedios Humanity: The Always Already  or Never to be  Object of the Social Sciences?; S.Fuller IndexPATRICK BAERT Fellow and Reader in Social Theory at the University of Cambridge, UKJAMES BOHMAN holds the Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and is Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at Saint Louis University, USAALBAN l³Ò