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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
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The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris HarperCollins * 2010 384 pages * $26.99 hardcover; $15.99 paperback
Timothy Ferris is a prolific bestselling author of 12 books on cosmology, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the recipient of several awards for popular science writing. The Science of Liberty is a welcome treatment of a subject often and regrettably neglected by intellectual historians in the social sciences.
Ferris's interests center on articulating an understanding of liberal democracy informed by science and its achievements. The book's narrative draws on the connections between …
