Gerações espontâneas

sexta-feira, dezembro 28, 2007

Os alunos de pós-graduação em História e Filosofia da Ciência na Universidade de Toronto acabaram de lançar a primeira edição de um ‘journal aberto’: SPONTANEOUS GENERATIONS.

Table of contents of the first issue:

Opinions

We Cannot Allow a Wikipedia Gap!
Sage Rogers Ross

On the Ethics of Medical Care under Resource Constraints
Joseph Agassi

Focused Discussion

Scientific Expertise: Epistemological Worries, Political Dilemmas (Focused Discussion Editor's Introduction)
Boaz Miller

Expertise, Skepticism and Cynicism: Lessons from Science & Technology Studies
Michael Lynch

Science Democratised = Expertise Decommissioned
Steve Fuller

Nota deste blogger: Fuller é Professor de Sociologia na Universidade de Warwick, Grã-Bretanha, e simpatizante da teoria do Design Inteligente

Political Epistemology, Experts, and the Aggregation of Knowledge
Stephen Turner

Wild or Farmed? Seeking Effective Science in a Controversial Environment
Stephen Bocking

Experts, Evidence, and Epistemic Independence
Ben Almassi

Managing Public Expectations of Technological Systems: A Case Study of a Problematic Government Project
Aaron K Martin, Edgar A Whitley

Anatomical Expertise and the Hermaphroditic Body
Palmira Fontes da Costa

The Expert Professor: C.R. Young and the Toronto Building Code
James Hull

Articles

An Engineer's View of an Ideal Society: The Economic Reforms of C.H. Douglas, 1916-1920
Janet Martin-Nielsen

Mothers, Babies, and the Colonial State: The Introduction of Maternal and Infant Welfare Services in Nigeria, 1925-1945
Deanne van Tol

Plus Reviews