Conversations At The Intersection Of Science And Society Revised Second Edition

Author : Michael Joseph Stout
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781634876919
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations at the Intersection of Science and Society (Revised Second Edition) written by Michael Joseph Stout and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conversations at the Intersection of Science and Society is an anthology that introduces students to important concepts in the biological sciences and explores the intersection of these concepts with philosophy, ethics, religion, politics, and public policy. Readings are organized by topic and include selections from a variety of sources and perspectives. With brief introductions to each topic, Conversations delivers a thought-provoking and engaging reading experience for students. This anthology is intended for freshman- or sophomore-level science courses for non-science majors, as well as general readers interested in a non-technical introduction to biology and its relationship to society. Conversations is classroom tested in the editors' course, "Science and Society," at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Author : Michael Stout
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781631893919
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations at the Intersection of Science and Society (Second Edition) written by Michael Stout and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Stout
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781634876902
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations at the Intersection of Science and Society (Revised Second Edition) written by Michael Stout and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Conversations at the Intersection of Science and Society" is an anthology that introduces students to important concepts in the biological sciences and explores the intersection of these concepts with philosophy, ethics, religion, politics, and public policy. Readings are organized by topic and include selections from a variety of sources and perspectives. With brief introductions to each topic, "Conversations" delivers a thought-provoking and engaging reading experience for students. This anthology is intended for freshman- or sophomore-level science courses for non-science majors, as well as general readers interested in a non-technical introduction to biology and its relationship to society. "Conversations" is classroom tested in the editors course, Science and Society, at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Michael Stout is the L.D. Newsom Professor of Integrated Pest Management in the Department of Entomology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He received his B.A. in biology and his Ph.D. in entomology from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Davis, respectively. His research interests include plant-insect interactions, host-plant resistance, and integrated management of rice insect pests. He resides in Louisiana with his wife and two children. Jim Ottea is the insecticide toxicologist in the Department of Entomology at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. He received his B.S. in biology and his M.S. in entomology from Texas A&M University, and his Ph.D. in entomology from the University of California, Davis. His research characterizes mechanisms of insecticide resistance in insect pests. He resides in Louisiana with his three sons." "

Author : Adam Bly
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006201546X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Is Culture written by Adam Bly and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seed magazine brings together a unique gathering of prominent scientists, artists, novelists, philosophers and other thinkers who are tearing down the wall between science and culture. We are on the cusp of a twenty-first-century scientific renaissance. Science is driving our culture and conversation unlike ever before, transforming the social, political, economic, aesthetic, and intellectual landscape of our time. Today, science is culture. As global issues—like energy and health—become increasingly interconnected, and as our curiosities—like how the mind works or why the universe is expanding—become more complex, we need a new way of looking at the world that blurs the lines between scientific disciplines and the borders between the sciences and the arts and humanities. In this spirit, the award-winning science magazine Seed has paired scientists with nonscientists to explore ideas of common interest to us all. This book is the result of these illuminating Seed Salon conversations, edited and with an introduction by Seed founder and editor in chief Adam Bly. Science Is Culture includes: E. O. Wilson + Daniel C. Dennet Steven Pinker + Rebecca Goldstein Noam Chomsky + Robert Trivers David Byrne + Daniel Levitin Jonathan Lethem + Janna Levin Benoit Mandelbrot + Paola Antonelli Lisa Randall + Chuck Hoberman Michel Gondry + Robert Stickgold Alan Lightman + Richard Colton Laurie David + Stephen Schneider Tom Wolfe + Michael Gazzaniga Marc Hauser + Errol Morris

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Science Social: Conversations on History, Science, and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zeynep Pamuk
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218935
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Expertise written by Zeynep Pamuk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new model for the relationship between science and democracy that spans policymaking, the funding and conduct of research, and our approach to new technologies Our ability to act on some of the most pressing issues of our time, from pandemics and climate change to artificial intelligence and nuclear weapons, depends on knowledge provided by scientists and other experts. Meanwhile, contemporary political life is increasingly characterized by problematic responses to expertise, with denials of science on the one hand and complaints about the ignorance of the citizenry on the other. Politics and Expertise offers a new model for the relationship between science and democracy, rooted in the ways in which scientific knowledge and the political context of its use are imperfect. Zeynep Pamuk starts from the fact that science is uncertain, incomplete, and contested, and shows how scientists’ judgments about what is significant and useful shape the agenda and framing of political decisions. The challenge, Pamuk argues, is to ensure that democracies can expose and contest the assumptions and omissions of scientists, instead of choosing between wholesale acceptance or rejection of expertise. To this end, she argues for institutions that support scientific dissent, proposes an adversarial “science court” to facilitate the public scrutiny of science, reimagines structures for funding scientific research, and provocatively suggests restricting research into dangerous new technologies. Through rigorous philosophical analysis and fascinating examples, Politics and Expertise moves the conversation beyond the dichotomy between technocracy and populism and develops a better answer for how to govern and use science democratically.

Author : Dr. Archana Chaudhary
Publisher : Book Rivers
ISBN 13 : 9358427876
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Society in Traditional & Modern India written by Dr. Archana Chaudhary and published by Book Rivers. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sophia Roosth
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022644046X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Synthetic written by Sophia Roosth and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Sophia Roosth, a cultural anthropologist, takes us into the world of these self-named synthetic biologists who, she shows, advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. What we see through her careful questioning is that the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon are determined circularly by their own experimental tactics. This is a story of broad interest, because the active, interested making of the synthetic biologists is endemic to the sciences of our time."

Author : Benjamin Zachariah
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110677741
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What’s Left of Marxism written by Benjamin Zachariah and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have Marxian ideas been relevant or influential in the writing and interpretation of history? What are the Marxist legacies that are now re-emerging in present-day histories? This volume is an attempt at relearning what the “discipline” of history once knew – whether one considered oneself a Marxist, a non-Marxist or an anti-Marxist.

Author : Daniel Nettle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hanging on to the Edges written by Daniel Nettle and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions--biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and nature versus nurture--and look instead for the for puzzles and anomalies, the points of connection and overlap. These essays, converted from often humorous, sometimes autobiographical blog posts, form an extended meditation on the possibilities and frustrations of the life scientific. Pragmatically arguing from the intersection between social and biological sciences, Nettle reappraises the virtues of policy initiatives such as Universal Basic Income and income redistribution, highlighting the traps researchers and politicians are liable to encounter. This provocative, intelligent and self-critical volume is a testament to the possibilities of interdisciplinary study--whose virtues Nettle stridently defends--drawing from and having implications for a wide cross-section of academic inquiry. This will appeal to anybody curious about the implications of social and biological sciences for increasingly topical political concerns. It comes particularly recommended to Sciences and Social Sciences students and to scholars seeking to extend the scope of their field in collaboration with other disciplines.