When Science Meets Power

ISBN-13: 9781509553068 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024

UK) Mulgan Geoff (DEMOS

Spis treści

Introduction: The science-politics paradoxPART I. How Science Meets PowerChapter 1: Uneasy interdependenceChapter 2: What is science and how does it connect to power?PART II. How States Have Used ScienceChapter 3: The ages of techne and epistemeChapter 4: Science bites backChapter 5: The scientist's view of politics as corruptorPART III. The Problem of Truths and LogicsChapter 6: Master, servant and multiple truthsChapter 7: Clashing logicsPART IV. The Problem of Institutions: Solving the Science-Politics ParadoxChapter 8: Split sovereignty, or the role of knowledge in corroding the supremacy of politicsChapter 9: Democracy meets scienceChapter 10: The flawed reasoning of democracy and its remediesPART V. The Problem of Scales: Borderless Science in a World of BordersChapter 11: The clash between global and national interestChapter 12: Governing global science and technologyPART VI. The Problems of Meaning: Synthesis, Wisdom and JudgementChapter 13: Science, synthesis and metacognitionChapter 14: The dialectics of what is and what matters

O autorze

Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Social Innovation and Public Policy at University College London.