Science and normative authority

Education by Authority or for Authority? Are Science Teachers Teaching Science?

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The normative authority of the World Health Organization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) was born after the devastation of World War II, as a normative agency endowed with unprecedented constitutional powers. But even as it has achieved stunning successes, such as the eradication of smallpox, it has failed to live up to the exalted expectations of the postwar health and human rights movement - exemplified most recently by its inadequate response ...

Assertion and Authority: the Science of User- Generated Geographic Content

Neogeography has been defined as a blurring of the distinctions between producer, communicator, and consumer of geographic information. The relationship between professional and amateur varies across disciplines. The subject matter of geography is familiar to everyone, and the acquisition and compilation of geographic data has become vastly easier as technology has advanced. The authority of tr...

The Science of Morality and Its Normative Implications

Neuromoral theorists are those who claim that a scientific understanding of moral judgment through the methods of psychology, neuroscience and related disciplines can have normative implications and can be used to improve the human ability to make moral judgments. We consider three neuromoral theories: one suggested by Gazzaniga, one put forward by Gigerenzer, and one developed by Greene. By co...

Internet Equalizer? Gender Stratification and Normative Circumvention in Science