“Science and Democracy:” Replayed or Redesigned?

Social Epistemology 19 (1):5 – 18 (2005)
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Abstract

Mid-Twentieth Century declarations characterizing science as a 'Little democracy' and as autonomous from society continue to shape the arguments of scientists' and critics of science studies, including Meera Nanda's arguments. Yet such an image of science has long lost whatever empirical support it ever posessed. This article shares Nanda's concern to envision sciences which support social justice projects, but not the particular criticisms she makes of Feminist, post-colonial, and post-kuhnian science studies.

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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Thomas S. Kuhn - 1962 - Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Ian Hacking.
We have never been modern.Bruno Latour - 1993 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Knowledge and social imagery.David Bloor - 1976 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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