APSC 453 Science & Authority
a 400-level capstone course at William & Mary
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Foundations
How ought we think about science?
Defining terms … What is Authority?
Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis
Falsification and What `Theory’ Means
Lookin’ Up The Truth (Galileo, Part I)
Lookin’ up the truth (The Galileo Affair, Part II)
Ambivalence Towards Authority – Richard Sennett
Ambivalence Towards Authority – Franz Kafka
Value Antimony, Pluralism, and Good Will
Modernity and Authority in Max Weber
Wherefrom Scientific Values in the Modern World?
Episodes
Diagnosis Mercury: Money, Politics, and Poison
An Enemy of The People
Defending Secondhand Smoke
Manufactured uncertainty and product defense
Panic Virus
The Humanities and the Plague
Smallpox: Inoculation, Vaccination, Eradication
The Polio Vaccine: From Medical Miracle to Public Health Catastrophe
One Bad Apple?
Selling Sickness
The Diagnostic Statistical Manual and Selling Sickness
The Universal Solvent
What Our Case Studies Reveal
Scientisms and Denials
This Dilemma Has No Technical Solution
Climate Science and the Cold War
Expertise and Dissembling
Who Speaks for Science?
Science and Ideology
Data-ism: The Ideology of Big Data
Racial Science: Human Genetic Diversity and “Genohype”
Gendered Science: Feminist Epistemology and Women in Neuroscience
Technological Society
The Burnout Society
Surveillance Capitalism
Choice is not Freedom
Propaganda: The Science of Manipulation
Social Media and Political Polarization
Resources
Press
Readings
Books
Movies
A film about a film about a psychology experiment about authority
Fiddler on the Roof’s Topol stars in …
That old lie the the majority is always right
Selling Sickness
Merchants of Doubt
The Corporation
Why/How/When Trust Science?
What is Science? (redux)
Two Books : Two Academic Cultures
A Minor Episode in the Science Wars
Two Books : One World?
Donuts and Adieu
Projects
Fall 2023 Final Project Description
Fall 2023 Midterm Project Description
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