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Science 25 January 2002:
Vol. 295. no. 5555, p. 633
DOI: 10.1126/science.295.5555.633a
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PHILOSOPHY:
Unpersuasive Thoughts and Unhelpful Ideas

A review by Lewis Wolpert

Science, Truth, and Democracy
Philip Kitcher
Oxford University Press, New York, 2001. 233 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-19-514583-6.

Building on his earlier work, especially through a consideration of molecular genetics, Kitcher argues for a philosophy that recognizes scientific truth but "permits social consensus to determine which avenues to investigate."
The author is in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK. E-mail: l.wolpert{at}ucl.ac.uk

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