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Why Trust Science?

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (387 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780691189932
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 501
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Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the Paperback -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Why Trust Science? Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 2 Science Awry -- Coda: Values in Science -- Comments -- Chapter 3 The Epistemology of Frozen Peas: Innocence, Violence, and Everyday Trust in Twentieth-Century Science -- Chapter 4 What Would Reasons for Trusting Science Be? -- Chapter 5 Pascal's Wager Reframed: Toward Trustworthy Climate Policy Assessments for Risk Societies -- Chapter 6 Comments on the Present and Future of Science, Inspired by Naomi Oreskes -- Response -- Chapter 7 Reply -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the Paperback -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Why Trust Science? Perspectives from the History and Philosophy of Science -- Chapter 2 Science Awry -- Coda: Values in Science -- Comments -- Chapter 3 The Epistemology of Frozen Peas: Innocence, Violence, and Everyday Trust in Twentieth-Century Science -- Chapter 4 What Would Reasons for Trusting Science Be? -- Chapter 5 Pascal's Wager Reframed: Toward Trustworthy Climate Policy Assessments for Risk Societies -- Chapter 6 Comments on the Present and Future of Science, Inspired by Naomi Oreskes -- Response -- Chapter 7 Reply -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

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