Why trust science?.
Are doctors right when they tell us vaccines are safe? Should we take climate experts at their word when they warn us about the perils of global warming? Why should we trust science when so many of our political leaders don't? Naomi Oreskes offers a bold and compelling defense of science, revea...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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| coleção: | University Center for Human Values series2813
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Sumário:
- Introduction / Stephen Macedo
- Why trust science? : perspectives from the history and philosophy of science
- Science awry
- Coda: Values in science
- Comments Susan Lindee
- What would reasons for trusting science be? / Marc Lange
- Pascal's wager reframed : Toward trustworthy climate policy assessments for risk societies / Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch
- Comments on the present and future of science, inspired by Naomi Oreskes / Jon A. Krosnick
- Response Afterword.