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Mar

2012

Energy and Environmental Policy - Journals & Databases

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Feb

2012

Schrödinger's Goose » American Scientist

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Yet Shapin is not so sure, and for him the persistence of a moral vocabulary in science is one of the key continuities between the 17th century and the 21st.
Moral vocation in science has never excluded its mingling with wealth and power. The monarchs who sponsored scientific academies in the 17th century were already looking for expert counsel on practical issues
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- Not least significant among the novelties of recent science, Shapin argues, is its social organization
- collective organization of science was by no means confined to private corporations
- Even those who have the status and resources to direct their own labs must choose problems and methods that promise quick results so that they will have something to report in the next round of grant proposals. Add to that the meddling of university committees, bureaucratic requirements and teaching, and the university is, so they say, even worse than a corporate employer.
- He insists, against Weber, that scientific entrepreneurs have, in common with early modern natural philosophers, a sense of vocation, and that their more altruistic ambitions (typically, to save lives) are counted in their favor when venture capitalists (whom he also credits with a measure of idealism) decide which business plans to back.
- On the goals of research and its practical contributions to our lives, Shapin tends to report the words and choices of the scientists and investors without endorsing or doubting them. In his preface he explicitly denies any wish to celebrate the role of technoscience in late modern American culture. On the whole, he leaves it to other scholars and social scientists to labor to determine how claims for entrepreneurial science stand up against the evidence of experience. It remains quite possible that its advantages have been oversold, and that our contemporary funding regimes are tending, subtly, to erode the integrity of science.

Feb

2012

Writing the Revolution: Dilemmas of Ethnographic Writing after the January 25th Revolution in Egypt

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Feb

2012

Foucault

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Aug

2011

MIT STS: Graduate Program

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Aug

2011

DESERTEC Thesis Award | DII conference

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Mar

2011

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