- PII
- S1811-833X0000617-8-
- DOI
- 10.7868/SX0000617-8-1
- Publication type
- Article
- Status
- Published
- Authors
- Abstract
- I respond to the challenging comments of Nico Stehr, Stephen Turner and Raphael Sassower to my own article on the sense in which science can be regarded as a‘public good’. I agree with Stehr that this conceptualization brings various hazards that are exacerbated with increasing democratization of the knowledge system. Here I elaborate on an astute remark he raises from Georg Simmel. Based on a historically well informed account, Turner takes a more‘demystified’ view of science as a public good, ultimately seeing it as corresponding to John Ziman’s idea of‘reliable knowledge’. For his part, Sassower pursues a more ‘transcendental’ approach about knowledge being in the ‘common good’, while admitting that it is an aspiration rather than a reality.
- Keywords
- science, public good, Simmel, common good, reliable knowledge
- Date of publication
- 01.12.2020
- Year of publication
- 2020
- Number of purchasers
- 11
- Views
- 476
RAS PresidiumОбщественные науки и современность Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost
- ISSN (Print) 0869-0499
- ISSN (Online) 2712-9101
Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower
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Scopus
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At the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation
Scientific Electronic Library