Full title: Why trust science? / Naomi Oreskes.

Author/creator: Oreskes, Naomi.

Call Numbers: G 2020/3114

Record Identifier: 74VKaqNb8AAg

Language: English

Formats: Books

Contents: x, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm., , , , Introduction / Stephen Macedo -- Why trust science? : perspectives from the history and philosophy of science -- Science awry -- Coda: Values in science -- Comments. The epistemology of frozen peas : innocence, violence, and everyday trust in twentieth-century science / Susan Lindee ; What would reasons for trusting science be? / Marc Lange ; Pascal's wager reframed : toward trustworthy climate policy assessments for risk societies / Ottmar Edenhofer and Martin Kowarsch ; Comments on the present and future of science, inspired by Naomi Oreskes / Jon A. Krosnick -- Response. Reply -- Afterword.

Publishers: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Notes: University Center for Human Values series Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-334) and index. Critics' picks

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DDC: 501

MMS ID: 991024328515502626