Rescuing Science From Politics
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Rescuing Science From Politics
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Author : Wendy Elizabeth Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-07-24
Rescuing Science From Politics written by Wendy Elizabeth Wagner and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-24 with Law categories.
This book examines how dominant interest groups manipulate the available science to support their positions.
Rescuing Science
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Author : Paul M. Sutter
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-03-05
Rescuing Science written by Paul M. Sutter and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-05 with Medical categories.
"Examines the growing social distrust toward the scientific community, grounding its source in the academic scientific community itself, and offers solutions on how to solve it"--
Rescuing Reason
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Author : Robert Nola
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2003-02-28
Rescuing Reason written by Robert Nola and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-28 with Science categories.
Do knowledge and science arise from the application of canons of rationality and scientific method? Or is all our scientific knowledge caused by socio-political factors, or by our interests in the socio-political - the view of sociologists of "knowledge"? Or does it result from interplay of relations of power - the view of Michel Foucault? Or does our knowledge arise from "the will to power" - the view of Nietzsche? This volume sets out to critically examine the theses of those who would debunk the idea of rational explanation. The book is wide-ranging. The theories of method of Quine, Kuhn, Feyerabend (amongst others) are discussed and related to the views of Marx, Foucault, Wittgenstein and Nietzsche as well as sociologists of science such as Mannheim and Bloor. The author provides a wide interpretative framework which links the doctrines espoused by many of these authors; it is argued that they inherit many of the difficulties in the Strong Programme in the sociology of "knowledge", and that they fail to reconcile the normativity of knowledge with their naturalism. It is argued that neither relativists, sceptics, nihilists, sociologists of "knowledge" nor the postmodernists successfully debunk the claims of rational explanation, far from it: these theorists presuppose much of the theory of methodology they deny.
Saving Appearances
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Author : Henry S. Kariel
language : en
Publisher: Duxbury Resource Center
Release Date : 1972
Saving Appearances written by Henry S. Kariel and has been published by Duxbury Resource Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Political Science categories.
Rescuing Democracy
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Author : Paul E. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Rescuing Democracy written by Paul E. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
This book proposes a new institution -- the 'People's Forum' -- to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost. The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it. An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass.
Rescue
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Author : David Miliband
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Rescue written by David Miliband and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Political Science categories.
We are in the midst of a global refugee crisis. Sixty five million people are fleeing for their lives. The choices are urgent, not just for them but for all of us. What can we possibly do to help? With compassion and clarity, David Miliband shows why we should care and how we can make a difference. He takes us from war zones in the Middle East to peaceful suburbs in America to explain the crisis and show what can be done, not just by governments with the power to change policy but by citizens with the urge to change lives. His innovative and practical call to action shows that the crisis need not overwhelm us. Miliband says this is a fight to uphold the best of human nature in the face of rhetoric and policy that humor the worst. He defends the international order built by western leaders out of the ashes of World War II, but says now is the time for reform. Describing his family story and drawing revealing lessons from his life in politics, David Miliband shows that if we fail refugees, then we betray our own history, values, and interests. The message is simple: rescue refugees and we rescue ourselves.
The Rescue And Achievement Of Refugee Scholars
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Author : N. Bentwich
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Rescue And Achievement Of Refugee Scholars written by N. Bentwich and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
This little book has been written at the suggestion of the Society for the Protection of Science and Learning. That body was the successor of the Academic Assistance Council which was formed in 1933 by heads of British Universities and learned Societies to assist scholars and scientists and investigators "who, on grounds of religion, political opinion or race, were unable to carryon their work in their own country". They were, at the time of the formation of the Society, particularly, but not exclusively, refugees from Nazi oppression, and deprived of their academic posts on one of these grounds. But they soon embraced refugees from other tyrannies. The British example was followed by similar efforts in many countries. The National and International effort, initiated in 1933 on behalf of academic freedom, is still far from completed. For the persecution of free thought and research has become an endemic ill of our time, and calls for a continuous activity of the free Universities. The major task, however, of saving for science and scholar ship the victims of Nazi persecution has been accomplished, and most of the academic societies which were formed in the Thirties to take up the challenge have been dissolved. It seems opportune then to place on record this effort of cultural soli darity for the displaced scholars, and the contribution which has been made to the world's intellectual life by those who were rescued.
The Psychology Of Environmental Law
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Author : Arden Rowell
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2021-02-16
The Psychology Of Environmental Law written by Arden Rowell and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-16 with Psychology categories.
Offers psychological insights into how people perceive, respond to, value, and make decisions about the environment Environmental law may seem a strange space to seek insights from psychology. Psychology, after all, seeks to illuminate the interior of the human mind, while environmental law is fundamentally concerned with the exterior surroundings—the environment—in which people live. Yet psychology is a crucial, undervalued factor in how laws shape people’s interactions with the environment. Psychology can offer environmental law a rich, empirically informed account of why, when, and how people act in ways that affect the environment—which can then be used to more effectively pursue specific policy goals. When environmental law fails to incorporate insights from psychology, it risks misunderstanding and mispredicting human behaviors that may injure or otherwise affect the environment, and misprescribing legal tools to shape or mitigate those behaviors. The Psychology of Environmental Law provides key insights regarding how psychology can inform, explain, and improve how environmental law operates. It offers concrete analyses of the theoretical and practical payoffs in pollution control, ecosystem management, and climate change law and policy when psychological insights are taken into account.
Quantum Politics
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Author : Amit Goswami
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Quantum Politics written by Amit Goswami and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Political Science categories.
Our democracy is founded upon the ideal of giving equal access to human potentialities of life, liberty, and happiness to all its citizens. Today, in Trump's America, we are far from that ideal. This book considers both the short-term problem of politics, namely erosion of values, elitism, and worldview polarization, and, of course, Trumpism and the long-term problem of how to make politics into a real science for making an equitable society. Trumpism is nothing but an extreme perversion of how politicians in general look at power today, a vehicle to aggrandize their me-centeredness. By using the quantum worldview, the quantum leaders can actually transform (that is, walk their talk) the tendency of using power for serving their own me-centeredness to the ability of using political power to empower their constituency as leaders in a democracy are expected to do. Quantum Politics uses the new science and demonstrate that democracy is the only scientific way of governing a nation. The key is to bring human values and creativity into the picture and combine the exploration of power with the exploration of love. In this way, we can integrate the values in our society with every human being.
Rescuing Humanity
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Author : Willem H. Vanderburg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-04-15
Rescuing Humanity written by Willem H. Vanderburg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-15 with categories.
Rescuing Humanity examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future.