- AIP
Physics Success Stories - Highlights the important links between federal funding
for basic and applied research and development and their economic benefits to
society.
- Alan Sokal on the "Social Text Affair" - Read
all about the hoax in which Sokal submitted a bogus article to a humanities journal,
including the article, the aftermath, and his motivation.
- American Physical Society Statements - on ethics
and values, education, human rights, and national policy, from a physics perspective.
- Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
- Interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned
with problems that involve politics or public policy and one or more of the life
sciences.
- Bay Area Young
Scientist Forum - Dedicated to advancing the public understanding of scientific
research and the public participation of young investigators outside of their
research and development labs in the Silicon Valley.
- Belgian
Biosafety Server - Focusing on scientific and regulatory aspects of biosafety,
with regard to human activities carried out using pathogenic or genetically-modified
organisms.
- Biosociety - Website for European Union socio-economic
research in the life sciences. Information and research areas, databases, and
general aims, as well as discussion forum, networks, and related links.
- The Canadian Science
and Innovation Indicators Consortium (CSIIC) - Researches bibliometrics and
other quantitative measures of scientific work for use in public and private decision
making.
- CANHELP
- Council for the Advancement of a New Human Ethic Life Paradigm. Aims to restructure
a new view of the world that values life more than matter. Includes a comparison
between the new view and the traditional one. Also, has link to their interdisciplinary
college.
- Center
for Science, Policy, and Outcomes - A non-profit think tank that works with
the U.S. Congress on issues involving science policies and their effects on society.
Includes issues papers and analyses on current topics.
- Center
for the Study of Technology and Society - A nonprofit research and educational
organization which considers the social effects of technological change.
- Cienciateca.com: Scientists Popularizing Science
- Collection of articles covering science, technology, and society. Includes stories
on evolution, industrial chemicals, energy, and materials.
- Debunking the Conventional Wisdom About the Science
Wars - Essays by mathematician Gabriel Stolzenberg arguing that allegations
made by Alan Sokal and others of relativist and postmodernist 'science-abuse'
in the humanities and social sciences are based largely on hostile misreadings
and pop metaphysics.
- The Edge - The Third Culture - Collected works
and ideas of intellectuals whose work bridges the gap that C.P. Snow identified
as existing between traditional intellectuals and the sciences. Topics include
physics, evolutionary biology, philosophy, psychology, artificial life, chaos
theory, neural nets, fractals, and others.
- Elitism vs. Checks and Balances in Communicating Scientific
Information to the Public - Paper by Arthur Kantrowitz proposing a method
for communicating what science knows and doesn't know when facts are needed for
public policy decision.
- The
Engines of Our Ingenuity - Transcripts of a radio program exploring technology
and culture.
- Forum
on Physics and Society - Division of the American Physical Society for discussion
of science and society issues.
- Hongladarom, Soraj - Assistant professor of Philosophy
at Chulalongkorn University, specialising in problems arising from the interplay
between modern science and Thai culture. Biography and academic papers.
- Houston
Science Café - public debates on scientific topics that have important societal,
political, and business ramifications.
- Hybrid
Vigor Institute - Educational organization created to facilitate the exchange
and cultivation of interest in interdisciplinary science research. Publications
and details of forthcoming conferences.
- IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology
- Addressing such issues as environmental, health and safety implications of technology,
engineering ethics and professional responsibility.
- Institute
of Science in Society - Membership organization in the UK, offering news articles,
mailing lists, and membership information.
- International
Society for the Systems Sciences - Professional society for those interested
in understanding and interacting systemically with reality. Emphasizing system-level
approaches to evolution of and applications of science in society.
-
Irish Science Centres
Association - ISCAN fosters and promotes the public understanding of science
and technology in Ireland.
- Man Transformed - French museum exhibit showing
how technology can modify our conception of humanity.
- The Masters of History - A book about the impact
of science and engineering on society.
- More Light International - Articles countering
anti-scientific, anti-humanist ideas; promiting a more positive view of social
and scientific developments (main site is in French).
- National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists
- Addressing matters including scientific fraud, reliability scientific and technical
information available to the federal courts, legal, ethical, and technological
aspects of computer networks and genetic testing, and intellectual property issues
associated with electronic publishing.
- Negrotti, Massimo - Director of the Lab for the
Culture of the Artificial, University of Urbino, Italy. Page includes books, research
interests, music and photos.
- Panel on Public Affairs of the American Physical Society
- in-depth studies on topics ranging from energy and environment to national security
issues.
- Physics and Society - Quarterly newsletter; articles
on nuclear proliferation, nuclear power and energy policy.
- Politics & Science - Report by the minority
staff of the Government Reform Committee assessing the treatment of science and
scientists by the Bush Administration.
- RiskWorld - Resources on risk assessment and risk
management in medicine, environment, and society at large.
- Ristex - - Research Institute of Science and Technology
for Society (Japan)
- Science and Institutions - Articles by Luis Gonzalez-Mestres,
including topics of science ethics and other social aspects.
- Science and National Security in the Post-9/11 Environment
- Issue briefs and links to useful resources on key issues related to the topic
of balancing national security and scientific openness.
- Science-as-Culture - Internet mailing list. Site
includes subscription tools and archives.
- Scientific Freedom, Responsibility and Law Program
- A project to examine intellectual property issues associated with electronic
publishing in science.
- Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law - Scholarly
association fostering interdisciplinary exploration of issues at the intersection
of law, biology, and evolutionary theory. Features conference details, notices,
other organization information, and links.
- TechNet: The Technology Network of the World Bank
- Designed to encourage understanding of, and promote the use of science, technology
and information in development.
- Technology and Culture - A scholarly journal dedicated
to the historical study of technology in its relationships with society and culture.
- 2think.org
- Collection of book reviews and essays, mostly on popular science, with an emphasis
on science as a guide to truth. Also includes a discussion forum.
-
Virtual Society? - Introduction to the Virtual
Society? Programme: the social science of electronic technologies.
-
Voice of the Shuttle (VOS) - An annotated guide
to online resources that respects the established humanities disciplines in their
professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines
as they interact with the sciences and social sciences.
- WACRA
Europe - World Association for Case Method Research and Case Method Application,
Europe - Advancing the philosophy that complex economic and social problems, whether
acute or chronic, cannot be solved by academic research bounded by the conventional
constraints of strict rationality.
- W3C
Technology & Society Domain - Concentrating on issues that arise from
applications of Web technology, and devoting significant resources to international
public policy issues.
- What the Social Text Affair Does and Does Not Prove
- Article by Alan Sokal.
- World Conference on Science - Final reports from
the international conference, addressing many aspects of the place of science
in society, including ethics, science and technology in economic development,
and environmental and economic issues.
- The
Queen's Business Forum on Biotechnology - QBFB is an undergraduate conference
at Queen's University that examines the legal, ethical and social aspects of doing
business in biotechnology
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