Making Science as a Public Good meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower

Fuller, Steve

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Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower

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Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower

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Volume 57 Issue 4

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70-73

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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.

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science, public good, Simmel, common good, reliable knowledge

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01.12.2020

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GOST	Fuller S. Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower // Human Physiology. – 2020. – V. 57. – Issue 4 C. 70-73 .
MLA	Fuller, Steve "Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower." Human Physiology. 57.4 (2020).:70-73.
APA	Fuller S. (2020). Making 'Science as a Public Good' meaningful: response to Stehr, Turner, and Sassower. Human Physiology. vol. 57, no. 4, pp.70-73

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1. Fuller, S. Science: The Art of Living. Durham UK: Acumen Press, 2010, v+170 pp. 
2. Goldman, A. Knowledge in a Social World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, 242 pp. 
3. Hirsch, F. The Social Limits to Growth. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977, ix+208 pp. 
4. Sassower, R. A Sanctuary of Their Own: Intellectual Refugees in the Academy. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, 111 pp. 
5. Simmel, G. Sociology: Inquiry into the Construction of Social Forms. Vol. 1 (Orig. 1908). Leiden NL: Brill, 2008, 700 pp. 
6. Sombart, W. Economic Life in the Modern Age. Eds. N. Stehr and R. Grundmann. New Brunswick NJ: Transaction Press, 2001, 390 pp.

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