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Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and PolicyVolume 23, Issue 3-4, 2009Special Issue: US National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion |
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Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact: The National Science Foundation’s Broader Impacts Criterion and the Question of Peer Review
- DOI:
- 10.1080/02691720903438144
pages 337-345
- Published online: 23 Dec 2009
Abstract
Over the last 300 years science has been quite successful at revealing the nature of physical reality. In so doing it has provided an epistemological basis for scientific discovery and technological innovation. But science has been decidedly less successful at guiding political debate. How do we conceive of the science‐society relation in the 21st century? How does scientific research hook onto the world in a multi‐faceted, pluralistic, and global age? This essay seeks to reframe our thinking about the broader impacts of science by awakening an appreciation of the inescapably political and (and as a consequence, philosophical) dimension of all knowledge, scientific or otherwise.
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- Published online: 23 Dec 2009
Author biographies
Robert Frodeman is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas.
Jonathan Parker is a doctoral student in the Department of Philosophy and Religion Studies and Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity at the University of North Texas.
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