Re-Thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of UncertaintyISBN: 978-0-7456-2608-6
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288 pages
March 2001, Polity
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The authors argue that changes in society now make such
communications both more likely and more numerous, and that this is
transforming science not only in its research practices and the
institutions that support it but also deep in its epistemological
core. To explain these changes, Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons have
developed an open, dynamic framework for re-thinking science.
The authors conclude that the line which formerly demarcated society from science is regularly transgressed and that the resulting closer interaction of science and society signals the emergence of a new kind of science: contextualized or context-sensitive science. The co-evolution between society and science requires a more or less complete re-thinking of the basis on which a new social contract between science and society might be constructed. In their discussion the authors present some of the elements that would comprise this new social contract.