Vita
Heather Douglas is a philosopher of science who works on the relationships among science, values, and democratic publics. She is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Michigan State University and an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellow. She is the author of Science, Policy, and the Value-Free Ideal (2009), The Rightful Place of Science: Science, Values, and Democracy (2021), and editor of the book series Science, Values, and the Public (University of Pittsburgh Press).
Contribution to SOCRATES
Prof. Douglas will be working on her book draft, which develops a new social contract for science, while visiting SOCRATES. Her book includes chapters on how we should understand the responsibilities of scientists, science funding structures, science advising, and the relationship between science and politics, with the aim of appropriately protecting, supporting, and generating apt accountability for science in society.
