The Constitution of Science: Scientists' Public Discourse on the Purpose and Nature of Scientific Institutions and Practices

科学的构成：科学家关于科学机构和实践的目的和性质的公共话语

• 批准号: 9810900
• 负责人: Stephen Turner
• 金额: $ 8.6万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2001-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810900&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Constitution; Science; Scientists; Public; Discourse

Science is an activity in which structured decision-making by peers or by people acting as representatives of science play a large role. Such activities are governed by a `constitution.` The U.S. Constitution is the written document plus the interpretation given in such texts as the Federalist papers. In the case of science, however, the constitution itself is not formally written, but there is a rich body of constitutional commentary in the form of editorials, letters to the editor, and other such writings that indicate what scientists think about the rules governing the conduct of science, violations of such rules, and ways to improve them or change them to suit new circumstances. The project will catalog and analyze over a thousand editorials, letters to the editor, and articles in the national press that address constitutional matters. The central aim is to identify constitutional issues raised in such documents, examine the principles at stake in the various disputes and delineate the way emerging principles interact with existing principles to change the constitution.

科学是一项活动，在这种活动中，同龄人或充当科学代表的人们的结构化决策起着很大的作用。 此类活动受``宪法''的管辖。 然而，就科学而言，宪法本身不是正式书面的，但是以社论，给编辑的信以及其他此类著作的形式存在着丰富的宪法评论，这些著作表明科学家对科学的行为，违反了这种规则，违反了此类规则以及改善它们或改变他们的方式来适应新情况。 该项目将分类和分析一千个社论，致编辑的信以及国家媒体上解决宪法事项的文章。 中心目的是确定此类文件中提出的宪法问题，检查各种争端中的原则，并描述新兴原则与现有原则改变宪法的方式。