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Science and democracy [electronic resource] : controversies and conflicts / [edited by] Pierluigi Barrotta, University of Pisa; Giovanni Scarafile, University of Salento

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Science and democracy (John Benjamins Publishing Company)
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia ; John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018?]
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1 online resource
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Barrotta, Pierluigi and Scarafile, Giovanni
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The dam project : who are the experts? : a philosophical lesson from the Vajont disaster / Pierluigi Barrotta and Eleonora Montuschi -- Rational decisions in a disagreement with experts / Istvssn Danka -- Rethinking the notion of public : a pragmatist account / Roberto Gronda -- The expert you are (not) : citizens, experts and the limits of science communication / Selene Arfini and Tommaso Bertolotti -- Decisions without scientists? : two case studies about GM plants and invasive acacia in Hungary / Anna Petschner -- Save the planet, win the election : a paradox of science and democracy, an Israeli perpetuum mobile and Donald Trump / Aviram Sariel -- Science and the source of legitimacy in democratic regimes / Oded Balaban -- The ethics of communication and the Terra Terra Project / Giovanni Scarafile and Maria Elena Latino -- The political use of science : the historical case of Soviet cosmology / Mauro Stenico -- The dialectical legacy of epigenetics / Flavio D'abramo.
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9789027264046 (pdf)
9789027200747 (hb ; alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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