From "science in society" to "science with society"?

From ‘science in society’

to ‘science with society’?

Gerard de Vries

University of Amsterdam

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Three reasons for public

involvement in risk governance

• the markets ask for it

• science asks for it

• politics asks for it

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Three problems

• Does transparency really contribute to restoring

trust?

• The risk of corrupting science;

• Questions about political legitimacy.

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Nature

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Nature

Society

Nature

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Nature

Science

Nature

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Nature

Science

Politics Markets

Nature

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Nature

Science

Politics Markets

Pasteur

• “There are more of us

than we thought.”

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Bruno Latour

• The world is a collective of

human and nonhuman entities

that relate in many ways.

• In governing a collective, we

have to take both the human

and the nonhuman powers into

account.

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Governance: two questions

• Which human and nonhuman powers do we have to

take into account?

• How can we arrange these powers into order so that

they fit into an ordered, hopefully less problematic

way?

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Governance: four tasks

• Taking into order: perplexity and consultation

• Putting in order: hierarchization and institution

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The process of governing

a collective

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Taking into account Perplexity Consultation

Putting into order Institution Hierarchization

Skills and instruments

brought to the job

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Scientists

Skills and instruments

brought to the job

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Scientists

Politicians

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Thank you

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