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Governance of Science

1st Edition
0335231586 · 9780335231584
What does social and political theory have to say about the role of science in society?Do scientists and other professional enquirers have an unlimited 'right to be wrong'?What are the implications of capitalism and multiculturalism for the future of… Read More
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Series editor's foreword
Introduction

/f002Part One: The political and material conditions of scientific inquiry

Science as the open society and its ideological deformations
The role of scale in the scope of scientific governance

/f002Part Two: The university as a site for the governance of science

The historical interdependence of the university and knowledge production
Multiculturalism's challenge to academic integrity, or a tale of two churches
The university as capitalism's final frontier, or the fading hope for enlightenment in a complex world

/f002Part Three: The secularization of science and a new deal for science policy

Sociology as both sanctifier and secularizer of science
The road not taken
revisiting the original new deal
Elements for a new constitution of science
References
Index.

  • What does social and political theory have to say about the role of science in society?
  • Do scientists and other professional enquirers have an unlimited 'right to be wrong'?
  • What are the implications of capitalism and multiculturalism for the future of the university?
This ground-breaking text offers a fresh perspective on the governance of science from the standpoint of social and political theory. Science has often been seen as the only institution that embodies the elusive democratic ideal of the 'open society'. Yet, science remains an elite activity that commands much more public trust than understanding, even though science has become increasingly entangled with larger political and economic issues. Fuller proceeds by rejecting liberal and communitarian ideologies of science, in favour of a 'republican' approach centred on 'the right to be wrong'. He shows how the recent scaling up of scientific activity has undermined the republican ideal. The centrepiece of the book, a social history of the struggle to render the university a 'republic of science' focuses on the potential challenges posed by multiculturalism and capitalism. Finally, drawing on the science policy of the US New Deal, Fuller proposes nothing short of a new social contract for 'secularizing' science.