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PART I: REFORGING THE LINK BETWEEN SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY

1. Alan Sokal: What Is Science and Why Should We Care?

2. Michael J. Thompson: Science and the Democratic Mind

3. Joseph Chuman: The Synthesis of Science and Democracy: A Deweyan Appraisal

4. Lee Smolin: The Philosophy of the Open Future

PART II: SCIENCE'S DEMOCRATIC DIMENSIONS

5. Diana M. Judd: The Scientific Revolution and Individual Inquiry

6. Margaret C. Jacob: The Left, Science Studies, and Global Warming

7. Barbara Forrest: Betraying the Founders’ Legacy: Democracy as a Weapon against Science

PART III: PERVERTED SCIENCE, DISFIGURED DEMOCRACY

8. Kurt Jacobsen and Alba Alexander: The Return of Determinism: Science, Power, and Sirens in Distress

9. Landon Frim and Harrison Fluss: Back to the Futurists: On Accelerationism Left and Right

10. Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker: The Myth of the Expert as Elite: Postmodern Theory, Right-Wing Populism, and the Assault on Truth

PART IV: THE REVENGE OF ANTI-SCIENCE

11. Philip Kitcher: Plato's Revenge: An Undemocratic Report from an Overheated Planet

12. Michael Ruse: Democracy and the Problem of Pseudoscience

13. Thomas de Zengotita: The Freedom to Believe—Or Not

List of Contributors