Title

Notre Trahison Des Clercs: Implicit Aspirations-Explicit Exploitations

Keywords

Explicit exploitations of science; Good; Implicit aspirations of science; Implicit beliefs; Scientific enterprise

Abstract

This chapter begins with the explicit acknowledgment that the implicit belief of scientists, including psychologists, is that science is a good thing. It proceeds to ask whether this belief is actually fulfilled in the use of science in our world. The chapter is forced to conclude that, as a general proposition, it is not. Thus, this chapter asks whether science can use its capacities and understandings to address the disconnect between the often unexpressed implicit aspirations for science and its current pragmatic and manifest explicit exploitations. The chapter proposes that science can achieve such reconciliation, but, pragmatically, is much less sanguine about the enactment of such efforts. Failure of this nontraditional extension of the scientific enterprise would seem to harbinger our demise as a species.

Publication Date

9-20-2012

Publication Title

Psychology of Science: Implicit and Explicit Processes

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199753628.003.0020

Socpus ID

84921819275 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84921819275

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