Crossposted from the STS list. Apologies if you have seen it before....
(I can strongly recommend Fuller's new book on Kuhn, by the way)
On-line Seminar
Steve Fuller on The Governance of Science
Steve Fuller will be hosting a seminar on his
recent book _The Governance of Science: Ideology and
the Future of the Open Society_ between July 23
and July 30 on the Hayek-L email list, on the web
at:
http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/hayek-l.html
Those who wish to participate in the seminar
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Fuller's online seminar will begin Sunday July 23
with an informal introduction to the contents & arguments
of his book _The Governance of Science: Ideology and
the Future of the Open Society_. Steve will then field
questions & reply to comments on the contents of his
book thru the week on the Hayek-L email list, concluding
Saturday, July 30. A brief introduction to Fuller's
book can also be found at the Open University Press web
page for the book at:
http://195.89.185.89/bd.cgi/openup/isb?0335202349
In the words of the book's publisher,
"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."
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Warwick. Fuller is also the author
of _Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our
Times_, recently published by the U. of Chicago Press.
His email address is: [log in to unmask]
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information on past Hayek-L seminars can be found at
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The Hayek Scholars' Page will also be including a link to
the Amazon (US) web bookstore page on _The Governance
of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society_.
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