Science, society and science centres

Bridging science and society.

THE THEME OF THIS YEAR’S ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT of Science (AAAS) seems especially timely: Bridging Science and Society. Virtually every major issue now confronting society has a science and technology component, and this means that “the need for general scientifi c understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientifi c illiter...

Society, science, and values.

Data, Science and Society

Reflections on the Concept of Data and its Implications for Science and Society

16 Science and Society

John Dewey (1859-1952) was one of the foremost developers of American Pragmatism. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, he took the open, experimental, and practical nature of technoscientific inquiry to be the paradigmatic example of all inquiry. For Dewey, all inquiry is similar in form to techno scientific inquiry in that it is fallibilistic, resolves in practice some initial ...

Where science meets society.

T he theme for next week's American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting, " The Nexus: Where Science Meets Society, " reminds us of many events of the past few years that suggest that the relationship between science and society is undergoing significant stress. Some members of the public are finding certain lines of scientific research and their outcomes disquieting...