Knowledge and Politics
"Does knowledge matter to politics?" is the main question the book tries to answer. The analysis is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of topics: a social epistemology assessment of the efficacy of political institutions in promoting the generation
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Knowledge and Politics With 1 Figure and 4 Tables
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Professor Riccardo Viale Rosselli Foundation Via San Quintino 18-c 10121 Torino Italy
Cataloging-in-Publicauon Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Kurztitelaufnahme Knowledge and Politics: Wlth 4 Tables / Riccardo Viale Ed. - Heidelberg; New York: Physica-VerI., 200 I ISBN 978-3-7908-1422-4 ISBN 978-3-642-57564-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-57564-8 This work is subject to copyright. AII rights are reserved, whether the whole or part ofthe material is concemed, specifically the rights of translation, repnnting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on lllicrofilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publicatIOn or parts thereof is pennitted only under the provisions ofthe Gennan Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in Its eurrent version, and pennission for use must always be obtained from Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH. Violations are liable for prosecution
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Preface
The book Knowledge and Politics 1 analyzes a fundamental problem of contemporary society: how government and political institutions deal with knowledge. This problem encompasses many disciplinary approaches from epistemology to social sciences. How can we represent knowledge? Are there rational criteria to distinguish different kinds of knowledge? What kind of knowledge should be used by governments? Are political institutions using knowledge in the proper way? Is politics influencing the normative values inside the community dedicated to the production of knowledge? And so on ... The relationship between knowledge and politics is one of the main questions facing contemporary democracy. Riccardo Viale in his article "Truth, Science, and Politics: an Analysis of Social Epistemology" undertakes an epistemological assessment of the contemporary science-politics system. There are different ways of analyzing this relationship. Viale suggests using social epistemology to assess the ability of the science-politics system to improve or to weaken the rate of growth of knowledge in science and of using the best knowledge in public policy decisions. The thesis of this article is that nowadays the system of science-politics, particularly in Europe,
The book is partly based on the papers presented at the International Conference "Does Knowledge Matter to Politics?" organized by Fondazione Rosselli in Turin on 2-4 July 1998. The majority of the articles are rewritten versions of the papers presented at the Con
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