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  1. Center for Values and Social Policy, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder, Campus Box 232, 80309-0232, Boulder, CO, USA

    Dale Jamieson

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Reprinted with permission fromBeginning a Dialogue on the Changing Environment for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences: Report of a Conference. Copyright 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences. Courtesy of the National Academy Press, Washington D.C.

This paper was prepared forBeginning a Dialogue on the Changing Environment for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences; Sponsored by the National Research Council’s Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Applications, 13–15 August 1993. The paper was commissioned by the National Academy of Sciences and is reprinted here by permission of the Academy.

These reflections flow from my experience in serving on various National Science Foundation panels, chairing my university’s committee on research misconduct, and conducting collaborative research with various biologists and physical scientists over the last decade. This essay has been influenced by reports from various commissions and the US Office of Technology Assessment; recent work in science studies by such authors as John Dupré(The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Harvard, 1993), Sheila Jasanoff (The Fifth Estate, Harvard, 1990), and Bruno Latour (Laboratory Life, Princeton, 1986, second ed. with Stephen Woolgar) as well as my own observations of recent conflicts between science and society. Especially interesting have been the controversies ignited in the United States by the remarks of various legislators, including Senator Barbara Mikulski and Congressman George Brown, and in England by the publication of Bryan Appleyard’sUnderstanding the Present (Pan Books, 1992). The perceptions and opinions expressed in this paper are my own, and are not the responsibility of the Academy or any of the institutions with which I am affiliated.

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Jamieson, D. What society will expect from the future research community. Sci Eng Ethics 1, 73–80 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02628700

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