2004 Science & Technology Policy Gordon Conference, August 16-20, 2004; Bozeman, MT.

科学技术变得越来越复杂和专业化，探索各个领域的学术也变得更加分散和支离破碎。不足为奇的是，科学技术政策已经与科学内部和关于科学的学术广泛分离，因此政策往往伴随着零星的资助机会机会主义。其结果是失去了对更广泛的背景和目标的考虑，也没有考虑到谁赢谁输，以及为什么这很重要。有一种基本的需要，特别是考虑与科学和技术政策有关的适当的专门知识、道德和政治。关于科学和技术政策的戈登研究会议(GRC)提供了一个机会来发展这种讨论，并在一个新的学者和从业者社区中这样做，这些学者和实践者通常不会互动。因此，这项建议寻求资助与会者参加2004年8月举行的全球科学与技术政策会议。会议将遵循GRC的传统，即提供一个国际论坛，介绍和讨论生物、化学和物理科学及其相关技术的前沿研究，在这种情况下，重点是政策。通过这次会议，有机会将社会和行为科学领域的学者、历史学家、哲学家、伦理学家和其他研究以不同方式探索科学和技术政策的人，与参与制定、实施和促进政策的专业人士(包括科学家)聚集在一起。虽然承认通常的基本应用或理论活动家的区别是有问题的，但该提案试图将广泛的参与者聚集在一起，从最基本或最理论的学术极端到那些直接在政策界参与倡导和行动的人。它试图促进对科学和技术政策的特征和发展的系统理解，包括文化、智力、物质和社会层面(就像国家科学基金会寻求对标准2所做的那样)。在这个过程中，应该形成一个由参与者组成的多学科网络，他们自己的想法、研究和行动都会受到他们的参与的影响。因此，目标是双重的：增强每个参与者的视角，并创建一个可持续的个人社区，日益尊重和理解彼此的语言、兴趣和价值观。如果成功，该项目还将通过他们与制定、分析和促进政策的人的互动，在科学、社会科学、伦理学和/或科学史和科学哲学的学者中播下新型专业知识的种子，通过创建一个能够沟通和合作的新网络，加强每个人对未来的思考、研究和行动。成功将取决于说服一群充满活力的杰出思想家放弃他们宝贵的夏季研究时间整整五天，分享紧张的互动以及由此产生的沟通和网络建设。让最优秀的人参加需要资金。因此，该提案代表整个戈登会议为会议与会者寻求资金。所有资金将用于作为演讲者、讨论者、策划者和海报主持人的直接费用。

Science and technology grow ever more complex and specialized, and scholarship exploring the various fields also grows more dispersed and fragmented. Not surprisingly, science and technology policy has become widely separated from the scholarship within science and about science, so that policy often follows the piecemeal opportunism of funding opportunities. The result is loss of consideration of the broader context and goals, and a failure to consider who wins, who loses, and why that matters. There is a basic need to consider, in particular, what should count as appropriate expertise, morality, and politics relating to science and technology policy. The Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Science and Technology Policy provides an opportunity to develop that discussion, and to do so in a new community of scholars and practitioners who do not normally interact. Therefore, this proposal seeks funding for participants to attend the GRC on Science and Technology Policy in August 2004. The Conference will follow the GRC tradition of providing an international forum for presentation and discussion of frontier research in the biological, chemical, and physical sciences, and their related technologies, in this case focusing on policy. With this conference, there is the opportunity to bring together academics in the social and behavioral science, historians, philosophers, ethicists, and others whose research explores science and technology policy in diverse ways, alongside professionals (including scientists) involved in making, implementing, and promoting policy. Though acknowledging the usual basic-applied or theoretical-activist distinctions as problematic, the proposal seeks to bring together a full range of participants, from the most basic or theoretical academic ends of a spectrum to those directly engaged in advocacy and action in the policy community. It seeks to promote systematic understanding of the character and development of science and technology policy, including cultural, intellectual, material, and social dimensions (much as NSF seeks to do with Criterion 2). Out of this process should grow a multidisciplinary network of participants whose own thinking, research, and actions are influenced by their participation. The goal is therefore twofold: to enhance the perspectives of each participant, and also to create a sustainable community of individuals with growing respect and understanding of each others' languages, interests, and values. If successful, the project will also be sowing seeds for a new kind of expertise among academics in the sciences, social sciences, ethics, and/or history and philosophy of science through their interactions with those setting, analyzing, and promoting policy by creating a new network able to communicate and work together to enhance everyone's thinking, research, and action into the future. Success will depend on persuading a dynamic group of outstanding thinkers to give up five full days of their precious summer research time and share the intense interaction and resulting communication and network-building. Getting the best people to attend requires funding. Therefore, on behalf of the entire Gordon Conference, the proposal seeks funding for Conference participants. All funds will be used for direct costs for those involved as speakers, discussants, planners, and poster presenters.