TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shekeris,Haris
TI  - Science, Democracy and Relativism: The Production and Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge from the Viewpoint of Communitarian Epistemology
SN  - 9781443862868
AV  - BD175 -- .S545 2014eb 
U1  - 306.42 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Science
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PREFACE TO THE READER -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CHAPTER SIX -- REFERENCES
N2  - Science, Democracy and Relativism proposes and defends the thesis that scientific knowledge is produced through a process of argumentation and consensus among relevant communities of scientists, and that it is disseminated to other epistemic communities according to communitarian epistemology. Such a thesis considers scientific knowledge as unashamedly relative; however, this is regarded as a good thing for democracy, as it views knowledge as a matter of deliberation rather than something to
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ER  -