Why trust science? / Naomi Oreskes.
By: Oreskes, Naomi [author.]
Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm) [distributor.]Series: The University Center for Human Values Series: v.1.Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2019Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780691189932; 9780691179001Subject(s): Science -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 303.483 Online resources: Click here to access online | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 2019-1745 |
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Why trust science? Perspectives from the history and philosophy of science -- Science awry -- Coda : values in science -- The epistemology of frozen peas : innocence, violence, and everyday trust in twentieth-century science -- What would reasons for trusting science be? -- Pascal's wager reframed : toward trustworthy climate policy assessments for risk societies -- Comments on the present and future of science, inspired by Naomi Oreskes -- Reply.
This book explains why the social character of scientific knowledge makes it trustworthy and why social character is its greatest strength--for example, why we should trust doctors on vaccine safety, or climate experts on the perils of global warming. It traces the history and philosophy of science from the late nineteenth century to today, and explains that the trustworthiness of scientific claims derives from the social process by which they are rigorously vetted.