wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
ISBN: 9789027718068 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for social decisionmaking, much as Milton Friedman has accepted neoclassical econom ics. Or, he can condemn them, regardless of their value, much as Stuart Hampshire has rejected risk-cost-benefit analysis (RCBA). Finally, he can critically assess these scientific methods and attempt to provide...
If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the...
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582,32 zł |
Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy
ISBN: 9780195183573 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, property rights, procedural justice, free informed consent, intergenerational equity, and just compensation--and then bringing them to bear on real-world social issues--she shows how many of these core concepts have been compromised for a large segment of the global population, including Appalachians, African-Americans, workers in hazardous jobs, and indigenous people in developing nations. She argues that burdens like pollution and resource...
Shrader-Frechette offers a rigorous philosophical discussion of environmental justice. Explaining fundamental ethical concepts such as equality, prope...
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231,13 zł |
Tainted
ISBN: 9780190603816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their scientific findings often can be deeply flawed. To uncover and assess these scientific flaws, award-winning biologist and philosopher of science Kristin Shrader-Frechette uses the analytical tools of classic philosophy of science. She identifies and evaluates the concepts, data, inferences, methods,...
Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as ...
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238,54 zł |
Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
ISBN: 9780199767243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational disease and injury. Most troubling, children, the poor, and minorities bear the brunt of these health tragedies.
Why, asks Kristin Shrader-Frechette, has the government failed to protect us, and what can we do about it? In this book, at once brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals... In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health cos...
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127,33 zł |
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology: Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
ISBN: 9789027718457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for social decisionmaking, much as Milton Friedman has accepted neoclassical econom ics. Or, he can condemn them, regardless of their value, much as Stuart Hampshire has rejected risk-cost-benefit analysis (RCBA). Finally, he can critically assess these scientific methods and attempt to provide...
If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the...
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582,32 zł |
Taking Action, Saving Lives: Our Duties to Protect Environmental and Public Health
ISBN: 9780195325461 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health costs to Americans are similarly staggering: $13 billion a year from asthma, $351 billion from cardiovascular disease, and $240 billion from occupational disease and injury. Most troubling, children, the poor, and minorities bear the brunt of these health tragedies.
Why, asks Kristin Shrader-Frechette, has the government failed to protect us, and what can we do about it? In this book, at once brilliant and accessible, Shrader-Frechette reveals... In the United States alone, industrial and agricultural toxins account for about 60,000 avoidable cancer deaths annually. Pollution-related health cos...
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203,94 zł |
Nuclear Power and Public Policy: The Social and Ethical Problems of Fission Technology
ISBN: 9789027715135 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the decision to utilize nuclear fission for generating electricity. Since both grants gave me the opportunity to survey public policy-making, I discovered that there were critical lacunae in allegedly comprehensive analyses of various energy technologies. Ever since this discovery, one of my goals has been...
This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 19...
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194,08 zł |
Risk Analysis and Scientific Method: Methodological and Ethical Problems with Evaluating Societal Hazards
ISBN: 9789027718440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of Science and the Division of Policy Research and Analysis. (Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ) Several of these essays were written because of the impetus afforded by speaking invitations. An earlier version of Chapter 3 was presented in Berkeley in January 1983 at a Principal Investi gators'...
Much of the work in this volume was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant SES82-05112 from the Program in History and Philosophy of...
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194,08 zł |
Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation
ISBN: 9780521418614 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In the first section, they discuss conceptual problems that have often prevented the formulation and evaluation of powerful, precise, general theories, explain why island biogeography is still beset with controversy and examine the ways that science is value laden. In the second section, they describe how ecology can give us specific answers to practical environmental questions posed in individual case studies, and argue for a new way to look at...
In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In t...
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549,96 zł |
Method in Ecology: Strategies for Conservation
ISBN: 9780521446938 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In the first section, they discuss conceptual problems that have often prevented the formulation and evaluation of powerful, precise, general theories, explain why island biogeography is still beset with controversy and examine the ways that science is value laden. In the second section, they describe how ecology can give us specific answers to practical environmental questions posed in individual case studies, and argue for a new way to look at...
In this volume, the authors discuss what practical contributions ecology can and can't make in applied science and environmental problem solving. In t...
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357,16 zł |
Technology and Values
ISBN: 9780847686315 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Examining issues surrounding developments in technology, the contributors consider topics such as the effects on privacy of the widespread use of computers to store and retrieve personal information, and the ethics of genetic engineering.
Examining issues surrounding developments in technology, the contributors consider topics such as the effects on privacy of the widespread use of comp...
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302,03 zł |
Tainted: How Philosophy of Science Can Expose Bad Science
ISBN: 9780199396412 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as developing pharmaceuticals or establishing that a pollutant causes only minimal harm. For groups with financial conflicts of interest, their scientific findings often can be deeply flawed. To uncover and assess these scientific flaws, award-winning biologist and philosopher of science Kristin Shrader-Frechette uses the analytical tools of classic philosophy of science. She identifies and evaluates the concepts, data, inferences, methods,...
Three-fourths of scientific research in the United States is funded by special interests. Many of these groups have specific practical goals, such as ...
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441,23 zł |