Series editor's foreword
Introduction
/f002Part One: The political and material conditions of
scientific inquiry
Science as the open society and its ideological deformations
The role of scale in the scope of scientific governance
/f002Part Two: The university as a site for the governance of
science
The historical interdependence of the university and knowledge
production
Multiculturalism's challenge to academic integrity, or a tale of
two churches
The university as capitalism's final frontier, or the fading hope
for enlightenment in a complex world
/f002Part Three: The secularization of science and a new deal
for science policy
Sociology as both sanctifier and secularizer of science
The road not taken
revisiting the original new deal
Elements for a new constitution of science
References
Index.
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, Fuller's research programme, 'social epistemology' has been developed in a journal (founded in 1987) and six books. The most recent are Science (Open UP, 1997) and Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (1999). In 1998 and 1999, Fuller ran two global cyberconferences for the UK's Economic and Social Research Council: the first on public understanding of science and the second on peer review in the social sciences.
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