The Merger of Knowledge with Power: Essays in Critical Science

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Contents Preface Introduction 1. WHERE WE'RE AT The Problem A Critical Awareness of Science Risks and Their Regulation Recombinant DNA Research: Whose Risks? Hardware and Fantasy in Military Technology 2. HOW WE GOT HERE What Was the Scientific Revolution? Francis Bacon and the Reform of Philosophy Criticisms of Science: From Past to Present The Marxist Vision of J.D. Bernal 3. A NEW AWARENESS Ideological Commitments in the Philosophy of Science Quality in Consumerist Civilization: Ibn Khaldun Revisited Gaia and the Philosophy of Science Science, Ignorance and Fantasies 4. CONSTRUCTIVE APPROACHES Qualified Quantities: Towards an Arithmetic of Real Experience (written jointly with S.O. Funtowicz) Usable Knowledge, Usable Ignorance: Incomplete Science with Policy Implications A New Social Contract for Science Science: Orthodoxies, Critiques and Alternatives Towards a Critical Science EPILOGUE: Science and Charity Index (compiled by Sara Firman)