
Through the Mirrors of Science
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Is the objective that the European Union set itself in 2000, that is, to be «the most competitive knowledge-based society and economy» by 2010 still realistic? The momentous year has arrived, but it is discouraging to note that very few steps have been made in the direction that was fixed. What has gone wrong? Were the philosophical, epistemological and economic conditions adequate to achieve the desired result? This book - the result of a research project commissioned by the European Commission - critically investigates the society of knowledge and the way in which the European Union has proceeded towards it, examining first of all the premises and the contributions that the disciplines of Science and Technological Studies can provide. In this way, we have proposed innovative theoretical and epistemological bases for a multidisciplinary approach - making use of the Modelling Approach to Science - and therefore insisting on the function that human sciences can have for a society of knowledge that hinges not so much on an industrialist scenario, but a humanist one that eschews hyper-specialization and instead privileges creativity, flexibility, imagination and innovation economy.
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2 - Section one [Seite 13]
2.1 - 0 Introduction: From the Age of "Posts" to the Knowledge Society [Seite 15]
2.1.1 - 0.1 - Beyond the age of "Posts" [Seite 15]
2.1.2 - 0.2 - Post-industrial and post-modern [Seite 17]
2.1.3 - 0.3 - The knowledge economy and the knowledge society [Seite 21]
2.1.3.1 - 0.3.1 - Vannevar Bush and the consequences of his approach [Seite 25]
2.1.3.2 - 0.3.2 - A new metamorphosis of "capital" [Seite 28]
2.1.4 - 0.4 - The "knowledge" of the society of knowledge [Seite 30]
2.2 - 1 In the Beginning there was Lisbon [Seite 35]
2.2.1 - 1.1. Old Europe needs to wake up [Seite 35]
2.2.1.1 - 1.1.1 - The roots of the "Lisbon Strategy" [Seite 35]
2.2.1.2 - 1.1.2 - The reasoning behind the worries [Seite 37]
2.2.2 - 1.2 - The development of the Lisbon Strategy [Seite 39]
2.2.2.1 - 1.2.1 - The close union of economics and research [Seite 40]
2.2.2.2 - 1.2.2 - Human capital - beyond the economy [Seite 43]
2.2.2.3 - 1.2.3 - The economic requirements for innovation [Seite 46]
2.2.3 - 1.3 - Beyond GDP: the environmental turn [Seite 51]
2.2.3.1 - 1.3.1 - The unheroic history of GDP [Seite 52]
2.2.3.2 - 1.3.2 - Europa towards sustainable development [Seite 56]
2.2.4 - 1.4 - Keep on trying once again, old Europe! [Seite 60]
2.3 - 2 Society, Democracy and Trust in Science [Seite 65]
2.3.1 - 2.1 - Science, democracy and society in the history of modern culture [Seite 65]
2.3.2 - 2.2 - Public opinion and science [Seite 71]
2.3.3 - 2.3 - Divulgation and communication of science [Seite 79]
2.3.3.1 - 2.3.1 - The many facets of a relationship [Seite 80]
2.3.3.2 - 2.3.2 - The "construction" of the public [Seite 82]
2.3.3.3 - 2.3.3 - The "construction" of the object [Seite 87]
2.3.4 - 2.4 - The interaction between the public and science [Seite 89]
2.3.4.1 - 2.4.1 - "Hybrid forums" [Seite 89]
2.3.4.2 - 2.4.2 - "Civic epistemologies" [Seite 91]
2.3.5 - 2.5 - The value of democracy in science [Seite 93]
3 - Section two [Seite 97]
3.1 - 3 Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Models of the Interaction between Science and Society [Seite 99]
3.1.1 - 3.1 - The twentieth-century philosophical Received-View of science [Seite 99]
3.1.2 - 3.2 - Philosophy and sociology of science I: a division of labour [Seite 105]
3.1.3 - 3.3 - Philosophy and sociology of science II: the historicist turn [Seite 108]
3.1.4 - 3.4 - Post-Mertonian sociology of science [Seite 111]
3.1.5 - 3.5 - The emergence of "Science and Technological Studies" [Seite 116]
3.1.6 - 3.6 - STS and science policy [Seite 119]
3.2 - 4 From the Descriptive to the Normative: a Multidisciplinary Approach for Descriptively-Informed Science Policy [Seite 133]
3.2.1 - 4.1 - Multidisciplinary versus interdisciplinary integration of STS's methodological variation [Seite 133]
3.2.2 - 4.2 - Modelling techno-science complexity for science policy [Seite 138]
3.2.3 - 4.3 - Beyond theory and observation: the Modeling Approach to Science (MAS) [Seite 142]
3.2.4 - 4.4 - Towards a descriptively-informed science policy [Seite 149]
3.2.5 - 4.5 - Further articulating MAS [Seite 151]
3.2.5.1 - 4.5.1 - Levels of analysis of theory-formation [Seite 154]
3.2.5.2 - 4.5.2 - MAS and "methodological tolerance" [Seite 160]
3.2.6 - 4.6 - From descriptive to normative STS: heuristic appraisal [Seite 165]
3.3 - 5 Implementing New Strategies: Towards the Recommendations [Seite 169]
3.3.1 - 5.1 - Frontier research: beyond economic growth [Seite 169]
3.3.1.1 - 5.1.1 - The linear model of techno-scientific innovation and economic growth [Seite 170]
3.3.1.2 - 5.1.2 - Alternative models of techno-scientific innovation and how they fail to meet general society needs [Seite 174]
3.3.2 - 5.2 - Tacit knowledge and expertise [Seite 182]
3.3.2.1 - 5.2.1 - The representation of tacit knowledge [Seite 183]
3.3.2.2 - 5.2.2 - The possible explications of tacit knowledge [Seite 186]
3.3.2.3 - 5.2.3 - Society, tacit knowledge and knowledge-based view [Seite 189]
3.3.2.4 - 5.2.4 - Models of expertise [Seite 192]
3.3.2.5 - 5.2.5 - Expertise, tacit knowledge, complexity of knowledge [Seite 197]
3.3.3 - 5.3 - The importance of creativity [Seite 201]
3.3.3.1 - 5.3.1 - Creativity and the creative person [Seite 201]
3.3.3.2 - 5.3.2 - Family and school [Seite 208]
3.3.3.3 - 5.3.3 - Companies [Seite 212]
3.3.3.4 - 5.3.4 - Widespread creativity [Seite 218]
3.3.4 - 5.4 - The role of the university in the society of knowledge [Seite 221]
3.3.4.1 - 5.4.1 - University potential and problems [Seite 222]
3.3.4.2 - 5.4.2 - The European Paradox [Seite 225]
3.3.4.3 - 5.4.3 - The contradictions of research [Seite 229]
3.3.4.4 - 5.4.4 - A diverse view of contemporary research [Seite 231]
3.3.4.5 - 5.4.5 - A comparison with the Humboldt model [Seite 234]
3.3.4.6 - 5.4.6 - What is the mission of today's universities? [Seite 237]
3.3.5 - 5.5 - Not only specialisation: towards a more integrated vision of culture [Seite 239]
3.3.5.1 - 5.5.1 - A more comphensive vision of knowledge [Seite 240]
3.3.5.2 - 5.5.2 - Overcoming hyper-specialization [Seite 242]
3.3.5.3 - 5.5.3 - Towards superseding old dualisms [Seite 245]
3.3.6 - 5.6 - Towards an industrial or a humanistic scenario? [Seite 249]
4 - Conclusion: The Recommendations to the European Commission [Seite 257]
5 - REFERENCES [Seite 271]
6 - ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS [Seite 312]
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