Scientific research - Who should govern?

NanoEthics

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 177-184

  Kitcher, Philip ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy of science; Governance; Scientific research

Indexed keywords

EID: 37249031450     PISSN: 18714757     EISSN: 18714765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11569-007-0019-2     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. There are numerous informative histories of the early Royal Society that describe the ways in which contemporaries reacted. See, for example, Purver M (1967) The royal society: Concept and creation. Routledge, London.
2. Bush V (1995) Science: The endless frontier, reprinted edition. National Science Foundation, Washington DC.
3. I heard this story from Gordon Conway, in a symposium at Columbia University, in 2002.
4. This is my own impression of what occurs at multidisciplinary conferences, where the future of scientific research is discussed.
5. Flory JH, Kitcher P (2004) Global health and the scientific research agenda. Philos Public Aff 32:36-65.
6. Ibid.
7. See Allen G (1978) Thomas Hunt Morgan: The man and his science. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
8. I present this ideal in Chapter 10 of my book Science, Truth, and Democracy (2001, Oxford University Press, New York).