NIRT: Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research: Developing a Rational Approach to a Newly Emerging Science and Technology

NIRT：纳米研究的哲学和社会维度：为新兴科学技术制定合理的方法

• 批准号: 0210552
• 负责人: Davis Baird
• 金额: $ 17.5万
• 依托单位: University South Carolina Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-15 至 2003-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0210552&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NIRT; Philosophical; Social; Dimensions; Nanoscale

NIRT: Philosophical and Social Dimensions of Nanoscale Research -Developing a Rational Approach to a Newly Emerging Science and TechnologyNanoscale science and engineering presents new challenges and opportunities not only to the scientific research community but also to all those who shape its public understanding. As nanoscale researchers claim a middle ground between nano-visionaries and nano-skeptics, the public also seeks a middle ground between overreaching "hype" and irrational fear. This award is on an exploratory scale and is designed to enable the interdisciplinary research team to develop approaches to two main objectives. First it will develop activities that establish a broad interdisciplinary dialog on nanoscale science and technology that includes the public as well as interested social and natural scientists and engineers. This activity will be built around the NanoCenter of the University of South Carolina. Second, interdisciplinary teams of researchers will begin work on four specific research projects ("task areas") aimed at elucidating the rational middle ground for understanding nanoscale science and technology.Activities to be pursued as part of the interdisciplinary include: a Summer Workshop on "Reading Nano-science and -technology; " a Fall Symposium on "Nano-science and -technology and the Environment;" a Spring Conference "Discovering the Nanoscale," that focuses on a "science studies" audience with the hope of follow-up conference six months later in Darmstadt Germany; a regular series of "Nano Lunches" on the Columbia campus in fall 2003; and a website and archive for the project. The pursuit of this first objective allows for the achievement of the second objective, namely to rationally understand nanoscale research at the appropriate middle ground between visionary hype and skeptical or irrational fear. The research team focuses on the concepts of understanding and control, concepts that are central to the rational comprehension of opportunities and risks. Four specific topics will be developed: 1) Stability and Control of Nano-science and -technology (How experimental, theoretical and technological work on the nanoscale produces stable phenomena over which we have significant control); 2) Imagining and Imaging the Nanoscale (How our abilities to imagine the nanoscale (both in words and in drawings) and our abilities to image the nanoscale (specifically with various nanoscale microscopes) interact, and how the pictures of the nanoscale that result effect scientific, technological and public understanding of the nanoscale); 3) Risk and Problems of Self-replication and Cascading Effects with Nanoscale Technology (How to consider and control the special issues of risk posed by nanoscale interventions, specifically the use of self-replication and its potential for cascading effects. Analogies with work in genetic engineering will be developed); and 4) The Public Face of Nano-science and -technology (How nano-science and -technology is presented to the public and how the public has reacted to it. Connections with legal and democratic infrastructure will be developed.)

NIRT：纳米级研究的哲学和社会层面 - 为新兴的科学和技术纳米级科学和工程发展开发一种理性的方法，不仅为科学研究界提供了新的挑战和机遇，还向所有塑造公众理解的人提供了新的挑战和机遇。正如纳米级的研究人员所说，纳米风格和纳米态度之间的中间立场，公众也寻求超越“炒作”和非理性恐惧之间的中间立场。 该奖项是在探索性范围内的，旨在使跨学科研究团队能够开发出两个主要目标的方法。首先，它将开发有关包括公众以及感兴趣的社会和自然科学家和工程师在内的纳米级科学和技术的广泛跨学科对话。 这项活动将建立在南卡罗来纳大学的纳米中心者周围。 其次，研究人员的跨学科团队将开始在四个特定的研究项目（“任务领域”）上进行工作，旨在阐明理解纳米级科学和技术的理性中间立场。作为跨学科的一部分，将追求纳米级的科学和技术。春季会议“发现纳米级”，重点是“科学研究”观众，希望在六个月后在德国达姆施塔特（Darmstadt Dermany）进行后续会议。 2003年秋季，在哥伦比亚校园举行的一系列“纳米午餐”系列； 以及该项目的网站和档案。追求第一个目标允许实现第二个目标，即在有远见的炒作与怀疑或不合理的恐惧之间合理地理解纳米级研究。研究小组专注于理解和控制的概念，这是对机会和风险合理理解的核心。将开发四个特定主题：1）纳米科学和技术的稳定性和控制（实验，理论和技术工作如何产生我们具有重大控制的稳定现象）； 2）想象和成像纳米级（我们如何想象纳米级的能力（无论是单词还是图纸）以及我们的能力图像纳米级（特别是与各种纳米级显微镜）相互作用的能力，以及纳米级的相互作用，以及导致科学和公众对纳米凯生的科学和公众理解的纳米级图片）； 3）纳米级技术的自我复制和级联效应的风险和问题（如何考虑和控制纳米级干预构成的特殊风险问题，特别是使用自我复制及其对级联效应的潜力。将开发与基因工程工作的类比）； 4）纳米科学和技术学的公众面孔（纳米科学和技术如何向公众呈现，以及公众如何对其做出反应。将建立与法律和民主基础设施的联系。）