Dear All,
I am happy to inform you that the following volume has now been published:
*THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DEMOCRACY* edited by Jeroen Van Bouwel,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Click for details: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=325901
*Contributors* are: Patrick Baert, James Bohman, Alban Bouvier, Steve
Fuller, Helena Mateus Jerónimo, Harold Kincaid, Philip Mirowski, Francis
Remedios, Kristina Rolin, Alan Shipman, Stephanie Solomon, Stephen
Turner, Erik Weber and Jeroen Van Bouwel.
*Table of Contents*
Where the Epistemic and the Political Meet: An Introduction to the
Social Sciences and Democracy; J. Van Bouwel
PART I: DEMOCRATIZING THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: BALANCING EXPERTISE AND
DIALOGUE
Social Sciences and the Democratic Ideal: From Technocracy to
Dialogue; P. Baert, H. Mateus Jerónimo & A. Shipman
Stakeholders or Experts? On the Ambiguous Implications of Public
Participation in Science; S. Solomon
Scientific Knowledge: A Stakeholder Theory; K. Rolin
PART II: THE SOCIAL SCIENCES IMPROVING DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PRACTICE
Improving Democratic Practice: Practical Social Science and
Normative Ideals; J. Bohman
Fact and Value in Democratic Theory; H. Kincaid
PART III: DEMOCRATIC THEORY ELUCIDATING SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC THEORY AND
PRACTICE
The Problem With(Out) Consensus: The Scientific Consensus,
Deliberative Democracy and Agonistic Pluralism; J. Van Bouwel
Joint Commitment, Coercion and Freedom in Science - Conceptual
Analysis and Case Studies; A. Bouvier
PART IV: THE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
Public Sociology and Democratic Theory; S.P. Turner
Varieties of Democracy in Science Policy; E. Weber
Some Economists Rush to Rescue Science From Politics, Only to
Discover in Their Haste, They Went to the Wrong Address; P. Mirowski
PART V: (FUTURE) OBSTACLES TO THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND DEMOCRACY
Fuller and Mirowski on the Commercialization of Scientific
Knowledge; F. Remedios
Humanity: The Always Already ? or Never to be ? Object of the Social
Sciences?; S. Fuller
Index
I hope you will find it stimulating and enlightening reading! All
comments are very welcome.
With Best Wishes for 2010,
Jeroen.
