In:Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts
Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Giovanni Scarafile
[Controversies 13] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
Foreword: Like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants
Giovanni Scarafile
Introduction: The relationship between science and democracy: Harmonic and
confrontational conceptions
Pierluigi Barrotta
Chapter 1The dam project: Who are the experts? A Philosophical lesson from the Vajont disaster
Pierluigi Barrotta
Eleonora Montuschi
Chapter 2Rational decisions in a disagreement with experts
István Danka
Chapter 3Rethinking the notion of public: A pragmatist account
Roberto Gronda
Chapter 4The expert you are (Not): Citizens, experts and the limits of science communication
Selene Arfini
Tommaso Bertolotti
Chapter 5Decisions without scientists? Two case studies about GM plants and invasive acacia in Hungary
Anna Petschner
Chapter 6Save the planet, win the election: A paradox of science and democracy, an Israeli perpetuum mobile and Donald
Trump
Aviram Sariel
Chapter 7Science and the source of legitimacy in democratic regimes
Oded Balaban
Chapter 8The ethics of communication and the Terra Terra project
Giovanni Scarafile
Maria Elena Latino
Chapter 9The political use of science: The historical case of Soviet cosmology
Mauro Stenico
Chapter 10The dialectical legacy of epigenetics
Flavio D’Abramo
