Les Éditions du Rasoir
Independent publishing for serious questions.
Les Éditions du Rasoir publishes serious non-fiction for readers who value intellectual clarity, careful argument, and the freedom to examine difficult questions without reducing them to slogans.
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Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber?
A Sober Satire on Science, Expertise, and the Trouble with Public Trust
What makes expertise worthy of public trust? And what happens when the rules used to recognize expertise are themselves part of the dispute?
Using the familiar figure of the plumber as a recurring point of comparison, the book asks what ordinary expectations of competence, inspection, accountability, and second opinions can reveal when the subject is scientific authority. Its questions become more urgent when expertise enters public authority under the pressure of crisis and accelerating technology.
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Books for questions that deserve more than a slogan.
Les Éditions du Rasoir is interested in serious non-fiction at the meeting points of science, philosophy, history, institutions, faith, technology, and public life. Its editorial focus includes questions about origins, naturalism, epistemology, expertise, scientific institutions, public trust, and the ethics of technological change.
The aim is not to manufacture controversy, but to make room for arguments that can be examined carefully, distinctions that matter, and questions that remain worth asking.
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Independent by design.
Les Éditions du Rasoir is an independent publishing house in development, committed to intellectual rigor, editorial transparency, serious non-fiction, and carefully considered translation. It seeks to publish books that engage difficult subjects without pretending that complexity disappears when a consensus, institution, or familiar label is invoked.
About Les Éditions du RasoirAuthor
Daniel Capitanu
Daniel Capitanu is the author of Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber? His work on the book examines science, expertise, institutions, and public trust through a combination of argument, historical examples, and sober satire.
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Why Trust Oreskes’s Plumber? is the first title currently presented by Les Éditions du Rasoir. The catalogue architecture is designed to grow as additional books and authors are added, without pretending that a larger list already exists.
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