...This chapter reviews the growing social science and policy analysis literature that attempts to apply and extend existing economic analysis tools to terrorist attacks. The chapter is organized as follows. Section 14.1 discusses attempts to model the nationwide impact of terrorist attacks, most...

... and memorization but rather the internalization of skills, concepts and ways to use knowledge. In this chapter, we summarize many of the assumptions and habits that both faculty and students need to unlearn in order to learn effectively at Minerva. Minerva Science of learning Unlearning to learn Career success...

... science. Attempts to make such broad-reaching connections should be circumspect, as should apply to sweeping claims advanced by Erwin Panofsky (about styles in visual art influencing Galileo Galilei) and Stillman Drake (about music as the “mother” of modern science). With that caution in mind, this book...

...The introductory chapter to the edited volume Beyond Imported Magic: Essays on Science, Technology, and Society in Latin America argues that understanding international science and technology requires moving beyond models of diffusion (or imported magic) into concepts developed in postcolonial...

...Rodriguez details the historical development of the science of fingerprinting. The system for forensically filing and categorizing fingerprints to allow their easy retrieval for use in criminal cases was first developed in Argentina and then spread to other parts of the world. Yet her story also...

... involved a particular configuration of human and nonhuman actors and practices that presumably stabilized the facts created by the expedition. Bingham Hiram Cox Hall Amy Machu Picchu Peru Photography Science and technology studies STS in Latin America Yale Peruvian Expeditions Ames Morgan G Chan...

... the unique conditions of the institute’s international context. The chapter begins, however, with a description of the most general features of the evolution of the relationship between science and government operations and policy as represented by the development of operations analysis, systems analysis...

... of money, nearly 3 billion dollars, mostly in state bonds for its implementation. CALFED allocated the generated fund to different recipients such as ecosystem restoration projects and science programs. It promoted interagency coordination, and allowed water managers to work along with fisheries scientists...

... to unite with the spiritual order of things, they consider absurd. Considering themselves poets of science and common sense, Ovid and Lucretius borrow much from Freud in citing laws of nature to prove that love is simply tamed sexuality. Aristotle Plato Freud Idealization Bestowal Christian concepts...

...This chapter argues that making up the thirsty consumer has been an important element in the formation of markets in bottled water. It traces the emergence of the concept of ‘hydration’ from its origins in exercise science, considering its contemporary use, function, and deployment by the beverage...

... Demand Cognitivism Positivism Rationalism Pittsburgh School Robert Brandom John McDowell Kant Science Commitment Rationalism and empiricism were both inspired by the scientific revolution—but with different emphases. Empiricists were most impressed by the new experimental method: the idea...

...This chapter discusses a new way of thinking about the mind that will bring forth a new “science of the mind.” This new way of thinking is not exactly “new;” it is an old way of thinking that has evolved and taken on a new form. The steady rise of its credibility is due to the fact that it emerges...

...This chapter discusses the implications of the theory of traditional cognitive science that contends that mental states and processes can be found exclusively inside the brain of any given subject. Cartesian cognitive science, on the other hand, explains mental states and processes by way of mental...

...Does the persistence of research misconduct cases represent a deterioration of ethical standards or a decline in the ability of the scientific community to self-regulate? Are scientific professional and ethical norms ambiguous? Will peer review and the inevitability of replication protect science...

...The present study investigates how science and technology influence the political decision process and how social, political, and cultural circumstances contribute to determining the development of science and technology. This chapter, which describes the methods used, starts by giving...

... to science, policy, and society. Coordination work Knottnerus André Missionary work Dioxins advice on Ginjaar Leendert Repair work Side letter Sixma Jan Borst Els Medical Treatment at Crossroads Mulder Jannes Gezondheidsraad Sangster Bart Rigter Henk Vereniging Proefdiervrij Vereniging tot...

... reports. And third, it should position the work and product of scientific advice in the broader process of democratic governance of technological cultures: the role that experts play in the democratic procedures and institutions in modern societies which are permeated by science and technology...

...This chapter focuses on how institutional environmental policy and the development of environmental justice have changed “regulatory science” and “street science” in pesticide monitoring and regulation in California. It examines innovative regulatory and social efforts having the ability to fulfil...

...This chapter problematizes a set of common expectations regarding science and its relationship to policy making that underpin the International Whaling Commission (IWC). It starts by questioning the epistemic community approach, which is grounded in assumptions about science’s ability to attain...

...This chapter examines the emergence of computer science as the representative science of modern computing. It suggests that its rise as an academic discipline between the 1970s and the 1990s reflects a series of messy compromises about what the academic study of computing should look like and what...