SCIENCE IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.

Claims that science should be more democratic than it is frequently arouse opposition. In this essay, I distinguish my own views about the democratization of science from the more ambitious theses defended by Paul Feyerabend. I argue that it is unlikely that the complexity of some scientific debates...

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Published in:Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences & the Humanities Vol. 101; pp. 95 - 112
Main Author: Kitcher, Philip
Format: Essay
Published: Brill / Rodopi 2011
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