Science failed to self-regulate

How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science

We analytic philosophers have signally failed our colleagues in cognitive science. We have done that by not sharing central lessons about the nature of concepts, concept-use, and conceptual content that have been entrusted to our care and feeding for more than a century. I take it that analytic philosophy began with the birth of the new logic that Gottlob Frege introduced in his seminal 1879 Be...

Why Not the Best? How Science Failed the Florida Panther

On a sultry spring night in 2001, wildlife photographer Brian Call was heading home from the back reaches of south Florida’s Fakahatchee Strand. As usual, he saw no sign of the forested swampland’s rarest inhabitants, the black bear and Florida panther—until he spotted a young panther, twisted and mangled in the middle of State Road 29. As Call sat beside the lifeless, still-warm body, he heard...

Pesticides--how research has succeeded and failed to translate science into policy: endocrinological effects on wildlife.

Toxicological research became institutionalized in the United States in response to society's concern about cancer and acute mortality. Driven by risk assessment, research focused on the need for data development and the standardization of testing for regulatory and management purposes in a reactive mode. Although the research community has provided evidence for over 40 years that a number of p...

IgG anti - DNA transgenic mice Failed self - tolerance and autoimmunity

Self-organization and social science

Complexity science and its methodological applications have increased in popularity in social science during the last two decades. One key concept within complexity science is that of self-organization. Self-organization is used to refer to the emergence of stable patterns through autonomous and self-reinforcing dynamics at the micro-level. In spite of its potential relevance for the study of s...