Harry Collins and Robert Evans (2017) Why Democracies Need Science. Polity Press: Cambridge. 200 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5095-0960-7

Abstract

Postmodernist critique is often represented asincapable of producing meaningful alternativesto the phenomena criticized, which in turn leadsto claims that overcoming postmodernism isnecessary. Harry Collins and Robert Evans makea similar move in Why Democracies Need Science.They see government as informed by scientificvalues under the threat of erosion by the freemarketideology that leads to assessing sciencein terms of utility and economic value, as well asby the mass media, as distorting science for reasonsof profit. Postmodernist critique claimingthat there is no truth to be found, but rather thatthere are many approaches intertwining with politics,undermines scientists who attempt to assertthemselves and their valuesRevisió del libro de Collins donde aboogan por el electve modernism como alterntiva moral enendiendo la necesidad de una ciencia independiente como garantía de dicha moralidad. pdf en art ref manager/sociología