Lynda Walsh: Scientists as Prophets

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Beschreibung

In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown. Through a series of cases reaching from the Delphic oracle to seventeenth-century London to Climategate, Walsh elucidates many of the problems with our current science-advising system.

Über den Autor

Lynda Walsh is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Chapter 1-Prelude: Scientists as Prophets and the Rhetoric of Prophecy

Chapter 2-The Delphic Oracle and Ancient Prophetic Ethos

Chapter 3-The Natural Magician and the Prophet: Francis Bacon's Ethical Alchemy

Chapter 4-Confirming Signs: The Prophetic Ethos of the Early Royal Society

Chapter 5-Interlude: Competing Ethical Models and a Catch-22

Chapter 6-J. Robert Oppenheimer: Cultic prophet

Chapter 7-Rachel Carson, Kairotic Prophet

Chapter 8-Media, Metaphor, and the "Oracles of Science "

Chapter 9-Climate Change and the Technologies of Prophecy

Chapter 10-Postlude: Problems and Solutions

Appendix: Key Reception and Constitution Sources

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780199857111
ISBN-10:	0199857113
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Walsh, Lynda
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Lynda Walsh
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.08.2013
Gewicht:	0,478 kg