ISBN:
0199857105
,
9780199857104
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 264 p)
,
ill. (some col.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.]
Parallel Title:
Print version Scientists as prophets
DDC:
303.48/3
Keywords:
Scientists Moral and ethical aspects
;
Science Social aspects
;
Forecasting
;
Scientists Moral and ethical aspects
;
Science Social aspects
;
Forecasting
;
SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects
;
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING ; Social Aspects
;
Science ; Social aspects ; Forecasting
;
Scientists ; Moral and ethical aspects
Abstract:
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecy -- The Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions
Description / Table of Contents:
Prelude: scientists as prophets and the rhetoric of prophecyThe Delphic oracle and ancient prophetic ethos -- The natural magician and the prophet: Francis Bacon's ethical alchemy -- Confirming signs: the prophetic ethos of the early Royal Society -- Interlude: competing ethical models and a catch-22 -- J. Robert Oppenheimer: cultic prophet -- Rachel Carson, kairotic prophet -- Media, metaphor, and the "oracles of science" -- Climate change and the technologies of prophecy -- Postlude: problems and solutions.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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