Contents -- Contributors -- What Science Can Offer Contemporary Democracy -- Part I: The Nexus between Scientific Values and Civic Virtues -- 1 A Bouquet of Scientific Values -- 2 Public Reason and Democracy: The Place of Science in Maintaining Civic Friendship -- 3 Reason and Authority in the Middle Ages: The Latin West and Islam -- 4 Civic Virtue and Science in Prerevolutionary Europe -- 5 Virtues and the Scientific Revolution -- Part II: Values Revealed in the Work of Scientists -- 6 Candor and Integrity in Science -- 7 Evolutionary Biology and the Question of Trust -- 8 The Rise and Fall of Emil Konopinski's Theory of β Decay -- 9 The Evolutionary Ethics of Alfred C. Kinsey -- Part III: Sites of Struggle: Downgrading Science While Weakening Democracy -- 10 Defending the Radical Center -- 11 Are Postmodernist Universities and Scholarship Undermining Modern Democracy? -- 12 The Wedge of Intelligent Design: Retrograde Science, Schooling, and Society -- 13 When Science Teaching Becomes a Subversive Activity -- 14 Postmodernism, Hindu Nationalism, and ''Vedic Science'' -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.