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Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners (open access)

Dharmic Ecology: Perspectives from the Swadhyaya Practitioners

Article on dharmic ecology and perspectives from the Swadhyaya practitioners.
Date: 2009
Creator: Jain, Pankaj
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Peer Review and the Ex Ante Assessment of Societal Impacts (open access)

Peer Review and the Ex Ante Assessment of Societal Impacts

Article discussing peer review and the ex ante assessment of societal impacts.
Date: 2011
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

What's Wrong with Processed Food?

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. The topics include what processed food is, genetically-modified foods, functional foods, and the impacts of processed foods.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Kaplan, David M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness (open access)

Photography Changes Our Environmental Awareness

This article is part of a series by the Smithsonian Photography Initiative called Click! Photography Changes Everything. This article discusses how photography and increased visibility can bridge the gap between the natural world and human interaction.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark & Klaver, Irene
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011) (open access)

Re-assessing the science - society relation: The case of the US National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion (1997 - 2011)

Article discussing research on re-assessing the science to society relation and the case of the U.S. National Science Foundation's broader impacts merit review criterion from 1997 to 2011.
Date: 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Not in My Back Yard!

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling Redux. This presentation discusses the 'not in my back yard' (NIMBY) attitude - opposition by residents to a proposal for new development that is close to their homes - and focus on whether is it principled or hypocritical to simultaneously oppose the development while benefiting economically from it.
Date: February 8, 2012
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Introducing a Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy (open access)

Introducing a Policy Turn in Environmental Philosophy

This article discusses policies in environmental philosophy.
Date: 2006
Creator: Briggle, Adam; Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A New Philosophy for the 21st Century (open access)

A New Philosophy for the 21st Century

Article discussing a new philosophy in the 21st century and challenges and potential for reform.
Date: December 11, 2011
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research (open access)

[Review] Tempting Fate: The Ethics of Dual-Use Research

This article reviews the book "Ethical and Philosophical Consideration of the Dual-Use Dilemma in the Biological Sciences," by Seumas Miller and Michael J. Selgelid and published in 2008.
Date: March 20, 2009
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Media and Communication (open access)

Media and Communication

This book chapter discusses media and communication. As core features of humanity, communication and media clearly predate academic disciplines. They are in this sense non-disciplinary. Yet, they have for centuries been the subject of inquiry by those concerned to understand and improve human correspondence. This chapter surveys the historical development and present form of multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinary studies of media and communication.
Date: July 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam & Christians, Clifford G.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dear Facebook

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This book chapter is written in the form of a break-up letter from the author to the social networking website, Facebook. It discusses social networking, technological changes, urbanization, globalization, media technology, and philosophical ideas about society.
Date: 2010
Creator: Briggle, Adam
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose (open access)

Resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose

Article discussing research on how the resistance to impact criteria can lead to a tightening of the accountability noose.
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Does open access really threaten peer review? (open access)

Does open access really threaten peer review?

In this paper, the author discusses whether open access threatens peer review, as implied by the Association of American Publishers in their endorsement of the Research Works Act. The author suggests that we need to experiment with new models of peer evaluation.
Date: January 11, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophy Matters - Examining the Value of Knowledge (open access)

Philosophy Matters - Examining the Value of Knowledge

This paper discusses the University of North Texas' (UNT) Center for the Study of Interdisciplinarity (CSID), where philosophers continue to examine the value of knowledge. The authors also discuss one example of CSID's work with the Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR) project. CAPR is a four-year project (2008-2012) studying the changing nature of peer review processes across six U.S. and foreign public science agencies. CAPR is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science of Science and Innovation Policy (SciSIP) program.
Date: May 10, 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research (open access)

Good Transformations: Ambiguity and the NSF's Experiment with 'Transformative' Research

This article discusses a recent workshop on Transformative Research held at the headquarters of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington, Virginia.
Date: March 22, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt; Barr, Kelli R. & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Truth in Context: Nietzsche's Affirmation of Tragic Morality

This paper discusses research on Friedrich Nietzsche's affirmation of tragic morality.
Date: April 14, 2011
Creator: Heister, Luke & Yaffe, Martin D.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use Of Societal Impacts Considerations In Grant Proposal Peer Review: A Comparison Of Five Models (open access)

The Use Of Societal Impacts Considerations In Grant Proposal Peer Review: A Comparison Of Five Models

This article discusses the use of societal impacts considerations in grant proposal peer review in scientific and technical research.
Date: 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research (open access)

The Promise and Perils of Transformative Research

This report is on the workshop 'Transformative Research: Ethical and Societal Implications'. Workshop conversations cluster under the four headings of the history and definitions, promotion, evaluation, and integration of transformative research.
Date: March 2012
Creator: Frodeman, Robert & Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion (open access)

Science: For Science's or Society's Sake? Owning the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts Criterion

Article describing changes in the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) merit review criteria. The authors argue that scientists are more likely to preserve their autonomy by embracing - or 'owning' - the new Broader Impacts Criterion rather than resisting it.
Date: March 1, 2012
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR): EU/US workshop on peer review: Assessing "broader impact" in research grant applications (open access)

Comparative Assessment of Peer Review (CAPR): EU/US workshop on peer review: Assessing "broader impact" in research grant applications

This is the report of a workshop focusing on the use of broader societal impacts criteria as part of the review process at the European Commission. There is both a historical account and some thinking about how 'impact' ought to be incorporated into Horizon 2020 (the funding scheme formerly known as FP8). Since the US NSF is also currently rethinking the details of its merit review process, and since there is an interesting comparison between NSF's and the EC's approaches to impact, the authors have also included a focus on NSF's Broader Impacts Criterion. The workshop was both a research opportunity (under SciSIP grant #0830387) and an effort to use that research to help inform policy for science (in terms of informing peer review models).
Date: December 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt & Frodeman, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Role of Moral Realism in the U.S. Legal System: A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing the role of moral realism in the U.S. legal system.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Clark, Gilbert Jon & Figueroa, Robert
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Is Time Real? A Work in Progress

Poster presentation for the 2008 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on time.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: McDaniel, Joel & Gunter, P. A. Y. (Pete Addison Y.), 1936-
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Accountable Science: The COMPETES Act Needs to Demonstrate an Accountability Attitude (open access)

Accountable Science: The COMPETES Act Needs to Demonstrate an Accountability Attitude

Article on the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Broader Impacts Merit Review Criterion in relation to the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010.
Date: September 16, 2010
Creator: Holbrook, J. Britt
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Game - When Will People Learn: Democracy Just Doesn't Work

Poster presentation for the 2012 University Scholars Day at the University of North Texas discussing research on the game of democracy.
Date: April 19, 2012
Creator: Wood, Justin; Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew, 1972- & Verrill, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library