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The Impact of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Impact: A guide to charting more diffuse influences across time

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-05-26) Briggle, Adam ; Froderman, Robert ; Holbrook, J. Britt

Reflecting on the complexity of influence an individual research project can have, Adam Briggle, Robert Frodeman and Britt Holbrook try to get a handle on their own research activities and some of their impacts over the last few years. Their project led to a wide variety of results: scholarly articles, a forthcoming book, blogs and a number of ‘likes’ and ‘shares’. But what exactly is a share or a like? There is a need for further reflection on how philosophy – and the humanities more generally – can achieve broader impacts.
Research Ethics Education in the STEM Disciplines: The Promises and Challenges of a Gaming Approach

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-02) Briggle, Adam ; Holbrook, J. Britt ; Oppong, Joseph ; Hoffmann, Joseph ; Larsen, Elizabeth K. ; Pluscht, Patrick

While education in ethics and the responsible conduct of research (RCR) is widely acknowledged as an essential component of graduate education, particularly in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math), little consensus exists on how best to accomplish this goal. Recent years have witnessed a turn toward the use of games in this context. Drawing from two NSF-funded grants (one completed and one on-going), this paper takes a critical look at the use of games in ethics and RCR education. It does so by: (a) setting the development of research and engineering ethics games in wider historical and theoretical contexts, which highlights their promise to solve important pedagogical problems; (b) reporting on some initial results from our own efforts to develop a game; and (c) reflecting on the challenges that arise in using games for ethics education. In our discussion of the challenges, we draw out lessons to improve this nascent approach to ethics education in the STEM disciplines .
Designing Tools for Serendipity

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-02) Holbrook, J. Britt
We Scholars: How Libraries Could Help Us with Scholarly Publishing, if Only We'd Let Them

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015-02) Holbrook, J. Britt

A look at some of the issues important to discussions of the library's role as a scholarly publisher.
United States National Science Foundation, Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

In the early twenty-first century, science finds itself caught in a dilemma that is arguably of its own making: its very success in terms of understanding and controlling nature means that it has given birth to powers that transcend the traditional boundaries between science and society. Rather than being viewed as essentially neutral in terms of values, society increasingly views scientific knowledge as leading to various types of winners and losers. The review criteria for US National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals offer an instructive case study of this increasingly prominent dynamic.
Modernization, Chinese Perspectives

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Wenlong, Lu ; Holbrook, J. Britt

For some observers, China illustrates that Western modernism—in the philosophic sense—is no longer the only viable route to modernization. As one commentator notes, modern is translated in Chinese by xiandai (current generation)—a term that lacks the connotations of the English term modernization (Li 2011). If “modernization with Chinese characteristics” is not merely a process that entails accepting, adopting, or imitating Enlightenment rationalism, what is modernization from the Chinese perspective? One response to this question would need to emphasize that, unlike almost all other developing countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, China has never been colonized (like India) or occupied (like Japan). Despite being attacked by Western powers and forced to cede parts of its territory, China has always retained an independent heartland.
Games

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Briggle, Adam ; Holbrook, J. Britt

The long history of humans playing games to amuse or challenge themselves has been fundamentally transformed by science and technology. Science has studied in detail how games work, and technology has created whole new forms of computer and video games. Computer and video games exhibit two types of relationships to ethics: one concerns the ethics of the games themselves, another the possibility of using games to teach ethics.
Values in Science; Values in Engineering

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Biddle, Justin ; Holbrook, J. Britt

Values of many kinds play important roles in science. Ethical values constrain the types of experiments that scientists perform and the conditions under which they perform them. Moral and political values influence the choice of problems to address. Social values are operative in organizing social behavior in the scientific community. Values of some sort influence the methods of scientific knowledge production; the focus here is on the precise nature of the values that govern these methods.
Transformative Research

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

Since the first years of the twenty-first century, an increasing number of governmental science funding agencies around the world have expressed interest in promoting transformative research (TR). Public funding agencies are thus experimenting with different ways to make TR happen. The concept of TR nevertheless remains somewhat elusive and subject to debate among scientists, policymakers, and the general public. The following three questions are prominent in this discussion: What precisely is TR? How is it best promoted? Does it actually deserve support? There is as yet no general agreement on answers to any of these questions.
Global Research Council

(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015) Holbrook, J. Britt

At least since the formation of the Royal Society in 1660, science has envisioned itself as a global enterprise. Science is often touted as neutral territory concerned with the pursuit of truth independent of political or other biases. All scientists, on this view, share a common ethos, regardless of country, creed, race, or gender. With the increasing globalization of science, however, cultural differences between scientists from around the world have been recognized as an increasing problem (Suresh 2011).