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

科学和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分散。 毫不奇怪，科学和技术政策已经与科学内部的学术和关于科学的学术严重分离，因此政策往往遵循资助机会的零碎机会主义。 结果是失去了对更广泛背景和目标的考虑，也没有考虑谁赢，谁输，以及为什么这很重要。 特别是，基本上需要考虑的是，在科学和技术政策方面，什么才算是适当的专门知识、道德和政治。 戈登研究会议（GRC）的科学和技术政策提供了一个机会，以发展这种讨论，并在一个新的社区的学者和从业者谁通常不互动。 因此，本提案寻求资助与会者出席2004年8月举行的科学和技术政策全球研究中心会议。 会议将遵循GRC的传统，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，在这种情况下侧重于政策。 有了这次会议，有机会汇集学者在社会和行为科学，历史学家，哲学家，伦理学家，和其他人的研究探索科学和技术政策以不同的方式，旁边的专业人士（包括科学家）参与制定，实施和促进政策。 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，但该提案寻求汇集全方位的参与者，从最基本或理论的学术领域到直接参与政策界宣传和行动的人。它旨在促进对科学和技术政策的性质和发展的系统理解，包括文化，知识，物质和社会方面（与NSF寻求标准2一样）。 在这一过程中，应该发展出一个多学科的参与者网络，他们自己的思想，研究和行动受到他们的参与的影响。 因此，目标是双重的：提高每个参与者的观点，并建立一个可持续的个人社区，不断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/或科学历史和哲学的学者中播下一种新的专业知识的种子。 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，分享激烈的互动和由此产生的沟通和网络建设。让最好的人参加需要资金。 因此，本提案代表整个戈登会议，为与会者寻求资金。 所有资金将用于作为发言者、讨论者、规划者和海报展示者的直接费用。

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.