Week 3

January 29, 2008 - Critiques and Interpretations of Science Policy

Articles

Calvert, J. 2006. What’s Special about Basic Research? Science, Technology & Human Values 31: 199-220

Fuller, S. 1996. A new deal for national science policy. Nature 381:274

Gibbons, Michael. 1999. Science’s new social contract with society. Nature, Vol.402, Supp. 2 Dec. 1999

Guston, David H., Retiring the Social Contract for Science, Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2000, at: http://www.nap.edu/issues/16.4/p_guston.htm

Pielke, Jr., R.A. 2005. Science Policy, in C. Mitcham (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics

Pielke, Jr., R.A., and R. Byerly, Jr. 1998. Beyond basic and applied. Physics Today, 51(2), 42-46

Polanyi, M., 1967. The Republic of Science, Minerva, 1: 54-73

Sarewitz, D., G. Foladori, N. Invernizzi, and M. Garfinkel. 2004. Science Policy in its Social Context, Philosophy Today, v. 48(5): 67-83

Texts

Greenberg, Science, Money and Politics, chapters 1-5

Sarewitz, Frontiers of Illusion, chapters 2-4

Stokes, Pasteur’s Quadrant, chapter 3

Optional

Bozeman, B. and D. Sarewitz. 2005. Public values and public failure in U.S. Science Policy. Science and Public Policy, 32(2) 119-136