scholarly journals Report on the Meeting of the Political Science Members of the National Academy of Sciences

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (01) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
David Laitin ◽  
Gary King
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Public Issues ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

With assistance of the APSA, the political science members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) held their standing meeting at the annual APSA convention in Chicago. The purposes of these meetings are two-fold: First, as required, to discuss ways that political science can fulfill the NAS mission in providing scientific evidence to address consequential public issues that come from queries posed by various agencies of government; and second, to increase the presence of political scientists in the Academy, where membership from our discipline is, in our view, much lower than political scientists' contributions to the scientific community, and does not adequately recognize the many political scientists who merit election. While we have made some progress toward this second goal, it is a complicated battle: 2,179 members and 437 foreign associates across scientific disciplines have been elected to and currently serve in the NAS, but only 21 are political scientists. Although the science-based mission of NAS does not seek to represent all of the highly pluralistic discipline of political science, far more research relying on methods that are recognized in the natural sciences is produced in our field than is presently represented in the NAS.

Christianity and culture: history, tradition, modernity

1997 ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
V. Klymov
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Culture History ◽  
State Administration ◽  
State Pedagogical ◽  
State Pedagogical Institute ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Cultural Experts ◽  
Practical Conference

Under this name, on November 20-21, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference took place in Poltava, which became one of the many events devoted to the 2000th anniversary of the Nativity of Christ. Its organizers were Poltava Regional State Administration, Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy named after G. Skovoroda, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Poltava State Pedagogical Institute. VG Korolenko. The conference was attended by scholars: religious scholars, historians, philosophers, ethnographers, cultural experts, teachers from Kyiv, and many regions of Ukraine.

scholarly journals A Conversation with Theda Skocpol

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Theda Skocpol ◽  
Eric Schickler
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
American Political Science Association ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Arts And Sciences ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
American Political Science

An interview with Theda Skocpol took place at Harvard University in December 2017. Professor Skocpol is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University. Skocpol is the author of numerous books and articles well known in political science and beyond, including States and Social Revolutions, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, and The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism (the latter coauthored with Vanessa Williamson). Skocpol has served as President of the American Political Science Association and the Social Science History Association. Among her honors, she is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Sciences, and she was awarded the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. She was interviewed by Eric Schickler, the Jeffrey & Ashley McDermott Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. The following is an edited transcript; a video of the entire interview can be viewed at https://www.annualreviews.org/r/theda-skocpol .

WISDOM LOST AND REGAINED? THE POSSIBILITY OF REINTEGRATING A FRACTURED TECHNOSCIENTIFIC CULTURE

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-144
Author(s):  
CORNEL W. DU TOIT
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Life World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Main Factors

Abstract<title> Abstract </title>Technology has taken on a life of its own and it now seems impossible to work out who manages it. Humans have created a technoscientific environment that has surpassed the guidelines of their wisdom. The question: what is it to be human? can no longer be isolated from the question: what is it to possess technology? The renewed search for wisdom is regarded as a metaphor for expressing different sentiments, such as the attempt to link values to technology; the search for unity between the different sciences, and between science and the life world; the restoration of values, especially in the realm of the natural sciences; the best way to cope in a technoscientific culture; and, finally, decisions about research policies. in this article some of the main factors responsible for the exclusivity of the natural sciences and for the division of the sciences, and the detachment of science from the life world are discussed. the detachment of natural science from values, ethics and the human sciences are traced back to the scientific revolution and the establishment by Galileo and Kepler of mathematics as the language of the natural sciences. The subject of scientific research has shifted from the scientific community to the political and economic realm. the realm of power and the prerequisites for academic accomplishment compromise the integrity of science and the wellbeing of society. The democratisation of technoscience requires some progress in the concilience of the sciences.

Environmental scientists: advocates as well?

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
NORMAN MYERS
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Political ◽  
Valuable Resource ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Professional Credibility ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Policy Arena

What should be the response of environmental scientists when the world and the Earth appear to be heading toward exceptional crisis? Some scientists have signed up to public assertions that there indeed could be environmental Armageddon ahead (e.g. Union of Concerned Scientists 1992; US National Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of London 1992). Other scientists proclaim that our most valuable resource is not environmental well-being but professional credibility; the 'cry wolf' risk is the key determinant. Others appear to prefer to be scientists pure and simple, eschewing the policy arena, let alone the political scrum. Still others seem to think that warning of prospective crisis, even warning amongst themselves, is out of protocol's court.

Corporeal Ontology: Beyond Mind-Body Dualism?

Politics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

The definition and boundaries of the political have received considerable attention in recent times in political science, perhaps as a result of the wavering confidence in the scientific status of the knowledge that the discipline creates. However, a conspicuous absence continues to haunt mainstream political science, one that if rectified threatens, in some ways, to broaden both the nature of the political still further and to challenge the very division of knowledge into the social and natural sciences. This absence is the human body and this article seeks to ask after its exclusion and to suggest that its exclusion is both political and needs rectifying. I argue that the exclusion of the body in political science is a consequence of an inadequate ontological short cut, which is accepted (mostly) unquestioningly by political analysts and which has severe epistemological and methodological consequences. I suggest that a more reflective consideration of the body and its dynamic interplay with the mind could offer the discipline a greater understanding of the human subject, as well as alter power-knowledge relations.

scholarly journals Religious Studies in the Context of Religious Studies

2013 ◽  
pp. 133-135
Author(s):  
Anatolii M. Kolodnyi
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Educational Structures ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, which is currently the only academic institution in the country, the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, with his approval, adopted in his Annual Address to the Verkhovna Rada the provision on "ensuring the teaching of all forms of education in higher education institutions since September 2011" academic religious studies as a normative philosophical discipline, and in secondary school - a comparative history of religions. " The clericalization of education, to which, contrary to the Constitution of Ukraine, the political-mindedness and polyconfessional nature of its citizens, the V. Yushchenko during his years of presidency, and the Ministry of Education, was at his discretion, was unclear to us, and thus unacceptable. Therefore, we did not participate in the work of the various commissions, which, according to Yushchenko's instructions, began to act at the ministerial level, and especially instilled in educational structures in the western region of the country. We go to secular modern Europe, and we strive to live in the time of its Middle Ages.

scholarly journals Ferdinand Tönnies és a korai társadalomtudományok, II. rész

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (22) ◽  
pp. 147-155
Author(s):  
Endre Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Special Theory ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Time Shift ◽  
Theory Of Relativity ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Modern Natural ◽  
The Many ◽  
The 19Th Century

In Tönnies’ interpretation, it must be emphasized that the scientific approach of the society, i.e. the social sciences contain delayed branches. The temporal difference is particularly striking related to the natural sciences and exists permanently in specific features. In the past when the early social scientists appeared natural sciences were already in the most modern phase of their evolution as we experience it even today. We can point out Tönnies’ specific works published in the same year as Einstein’s special theory of relativity. We are currently far away from explaining this time shift. Hypothesizing this, there are two possible reasons. The first one might be the force of attraction of the modern natural sciences, which demonstrated almost every day the effectiveness of its scientific methodology. The „method ideal” of natural sciences was an irresistible magic attraction. The second reason can exist in the new motivations, which might have been triggered by the enlightened, emancipative and already socialist movements in the last third of the 19th century. For pioneers of social sciences, there was no „great theory”. No „normal science” existed since it was during hard labour and no scientific community existed at that time. However, can exist either (on which the many questionings according to the protagonists’ cooperation are really depending). It is also not different with the public and the larger scientific community, that we generally call „audience” („Publikum”). This stipulates, that the protagonists must always play several roles. Whether they want or do not, they must at least unite in themselves the philosopher’s and the scientist’s function. The only thing that exists is the „object”, the society as the new object of science. Their methods should dispose of a theoretical-epistemological dimension so that however this dimension should not be philosophical, should then not refer to general objectivity, but to an already earlier qualified particular objectivity.

scholarly journals Legal political science as a post-non-classical research paradigm

2020 ◽  
pp. 461-469
Author(s):  
Yavir Vera
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Professional Communication ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
Politics And Law

Introduction. The institutionalization of legal political science in the structure of political science and legal knowledge as a process of forming a new post-non-classical research paradigm is studied. The integration of politics and law within the framework of legal political science is a reflection of the objective interaction and development of politics and law in the modern world. The creation of legal political science as a research paradigm in the context of the integration of scientific knowledge confirmates that the development of science is a complex, complex dialectical process in which differentiation is accompanied by integration, there is interpenetration and unification into a whole variety of different ways of learning, understanding , ideas. Therefore, the aim of the article is to trace the institutionalization of legal political science as a new post-nonclassical research paradigm. The paradigm is a set of fundamental scientific attitudes, concepts and terms that is recognized and shared by the scientific community and unites most of its members. In essence, the paradigm is the methodological basis of the unity of the scientific community (school, direction), which greatly facilitates scientific and professional communication. The relationship between law and politics has been recognized by political scientists and lawyers alike, so it can serve as a paradigmatic basis for exploring the problems of this relationship, the features of the interaction between law and policy, and even solving applied problems. According to scientists, the need to unite the efforts of political scientists and lawyers in order to comprehensively understand the phenomena and processes occurring in the political and legal reality, in order to bring the methodology of political and legal research in line with the needs of regulating public life, is being actualized and increasing. Results and conclusions. The formation of legal political science as a transdisciplinary science and the understanding of the political and legal processes in Ukraine through its methodological tools will help to improve legislation and implement reforms. Legal political science should become the scientific basis for the development of political and legal practice, the successful provision and implementation of reforms in the political and legal spheres of the state.

A NEW INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM: THE GEODYNAMICS PROJECT

Geophysics ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-357
Keyword(s):  
Earth Science ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Crust And Upper Mantle ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
International Program ◽  
Deep Crust ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The U.S

The cooperation of members of the SEG could be of value to those involved with one program of the U.S. portion of the International Geodynamics Project—the endeavor to map the layers of the deep crust and upper mantle in areas of geologic interest. The Geodynamics Project, designed to exploit the many opportunities for new insights resulting from recent advances in earth science, is an international program of research on the dynamics and dynamic history of the earth with emphasis on phenomena that affect surface or near‐surface processes and structures. There are 49 countries participating, each with its own program. The development of the U.S. program is in the hands of the U.S. Geodynamics Committee, which was established in the National Academy of Sciences under the Geophysics Research Board with the support of the National Science Foundation. A report with full details of the organization, research objectives, and participants has been published and is available from the National Academy of Sciences.

Editor's Note

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-431
Author(s):  
Jerold F. Lucey
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Past President ◽  
Controversial Subject ◽  
Pediatric Society ◽  
Nutrition Programs ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This is obviously a muddled, complex, and very controversial subject. The American pediatric community, American Pediatric Society, Society for Pediatric Research, Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics were not brought into these deliberations until April 1981, months after the fourth and final draft of the Code had been made. It is unfortunate that the three United States representatives in the negotiations for the Code did not see fit to involve the pediatric scientific community. They not only didn't ask for pediatric input they also failed to consult the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Nutrition Programs! Dr Barbara Starfield, Past President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and a member of our Editorial Board was asked to present the viewpoint of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association which has "endorsed in its entirety" the Code.

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