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Science and Representative Democracy - Experts and Citizens (Hardcover)
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Science and Representative Democracy - Experts and Citizens (Hardcover)
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Mauro Dorato charts pressing debates within the philosophy of
science that centre around scientific expertise, access to
knowledge, consensus, debate, and decision-making. This
English-language translation of Disinformazione Scientifica e
Democrazia argues that the advancement of science depends on an
exponential process of specialization, accompanied by the creation
of technical languages that are less and less accessible to the
general public. Dorato reveals how such a process must align with
representative forms of democracies, in which knowledge and
decision-making ought to aim at the society's general interest.
Given the importance of the principle of competence, however, the
role of experts as mediators of knowledge threatens the citizens'
autonomy of choice. Consequently, the risk of technocratic regimes
calls for new ways to increase literacy about science and its
philosophical and probabilistic foundations. Stressing the
conceptual conflict between pluralism and conformism, Science and
Representative Democracyreveals the obstacles to the functioning of
both science and democracy.
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