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5Introduction: Intellectual Property and Diverse Rights of Ownership in ScienceScience, Technology, and Human Values 13 (1-2): 7-16. 1988.
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43The Other Merton ThesisScience in Context 3 (1): 239-267. 1989.The ArgumentWritten as one book, Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-Century England has become two. One book, treating Puritanism and science, has since become “The Merton Thesis.” The other, treating shifts of interest among the sciences and problem choice within the sciences, has been less consequential. This paper proposes that neglect of one part of the monograph has skewed readers' understanding of the whole. Society and culture contributed to institutionalization of science and…Read more
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64Patterns of evaluation in science: Institutionalisation, structure and functions of the referee system (review)Minerva 9 (1): 66-100. 1971.
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34The proliferation of prizes: Nobel complements and nobel surrogates in the reward system of scienceTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 13 (2). 1992.In the last two decades, prizes in the sciences have proliferated and, in particular, rich prizes with large honoraria. These developments raise several questions: Why have rich prizes proliferated? Have they greatly changed the reward system of science? What effects will such prizes have on scientists and on science? The proliferation of such prizes derives from marked limitations on the numbers and types of scientists eligible for Nobel prizes and consequent increases in the number of uncrowne…Read more
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5Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the HumanitiesPrinceton University Press. 2009.Despite the worldwide prestige of America's doctoral programs in the humanities, all is not well in this area of higher education and hasn't been for some time. The content of graduate programs has undergone major changes, while high rates of student attrition, long times to degree, and financial burdens prevail. In response, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 1991 launched the Graduate Education Initiative, the largest effort ever undertaken to improve doctoral programs in the humanities and re…Read more
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On sociological semantics as an evolving research programIn Craig Calhoun (ed.), Robert K. Merton: Sociology of Science and Sociology as Science, Columbia University Press. 2010.
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Columbia UniversityRegular Faculty
New York City, New York, United States of America
Areas of Interest
17th/18th Century Philosophy |