Expertise and its Interfaces -
The Tense Relationship of Science and Politics

Gotthard Bechmann, Imre Hronsky (eds.)
Berlin: edition sigma, 2003 (Gesellschaft - Technik - Umwelt, Neue Folge 4), ISBN: 3-89404-934-0, 295 Seiten, 19,90 Euro



Contents

 
Introduction 7
I. General Problems of Scientific Advising 15
  The Rise and Crisis of Scientific Expertise
Gotthard Bechmann
17
  Expertise in Knowledge Societies
Nico Stehr
35
  Expertise as Hermeneutic and Emancipatoric Knowledge
Frank Fischer
45
  Paradox of Scientific Advising
Peter Weingart
53
II. Ethics for Expertise and Ethics as Expertise 91
  Ethics for Expertise
Rachelle D. Hollander
93
  Methodical Reconstruction of Ethical Advices
Armin Grunwald
103
  Ethics and Expertise in Climate Change
László Molnár
125
III. Expertise in participatory processes 141
  Scientific Expertise Encounters the Public to Develop a Cooperative Cognition Mode
Imre Hronszky
143
  Making Expertise in Environmental Issues
Lesley Kuhn
185
  Between Expert TA and Expert Dilemma - A Plea for Expertise in Technology Assessment
Michael Decker, Eva M. Neumann-Held
203
  A Counter-Expert: Cognitive or Social Alternative?
Jiri Loudin
225
IV. Case-Studies 245
  Neo-Etatist Development Strategies: The Political Elite and Social Science Experts in Post-Socialism
Pál Tamás
247
  The Grey Field: Expertise in Socialism - A Case Study
János Farkas
267
  The Role of European Rand Projects
G. Fayl
281
Authors 291




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