Scientists as prophets a rhetorical genealogy

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...

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1. Verfasser:	Olman, Lynda (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:	eng
Veröffentlicht:	New York u.a. Oxford Univ. Press 2013
Schlagworte:	Science > Social aspects > Scientists > Moral and ethical aspects > Naturwissenschaftler > Prognose > Ethik
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Zusammenfassung:	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.
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	X, 264 S., [1] Bl. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:	9780199857098 978-0-19-985709-8 9780199857111 978-0-19-985711-1