METAMORPHOSIS:Some Reflections on Science,Truth,and Democracy
"Metamorphosis"charts the evolution of my thinking about science,democracy,and related issues,since the publication of Science,Truth,and Democracy(STD)in 2001.I quickly realized that the notion of Well-ordered Science,focus of most of the attention on the book,needed further development.That need arose chiefly because STD had only looked at one direction of traffic between the sciences and society.The example of climate change quickly prompted me to reflect on healthy transmission of scientific information to the public.In elaborating my ideas,I found the tradition of classical pragmatism,particularly the works of John Dewey,valuable,and I began to realize that consideration of values ought not to be an afterthought in discussions of the sciences.We should embed our understanding of scientific research in a well-worked-out account of what is most valuable.The end result of my investigations(so far)has been a Deweyan pragmatism,issuing in a far broader conception of the philosophy of science than has been customary,a serious skepticism about allegedly pure knowledge,and a conviction of the importance of"reconstruction in philosophy."
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