From Trust to Crisis: Scientific Credibility and Institutional Legitimacy in the 20th Century, Panel at 2025 History of Science Society Annual Meeting

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

From Trust to Crisis: Scientific Credibility and Institutional Legitimacy in the 20th Century, Panel at 2025 History of Science Society Annual Meeting

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Science and technology can contribute to legitimization. This is reflected in the recognition that the results of Soviet science helped to legitimize Soviet political actors and the Soviet project more broadly. An especially vivid demonstration of this comes from Kendall Bailes’ classic case-study on how the achievements of Soviet aviation were used by Stalin to legitimize his rule in the 1930s. The historical resources on science and (nondemocratic) political legitimization remain however unexploited in philosophers’ theoretical discussions concerning science, credibility, and legitimacy. The aim here is to establish a firmer link between philosophical accounts on the above themes and the works of historians, with a special focus on Soviet chemistry. The salience of science for political legitimacy is demonstrated by examining more closely Nikolai Semenov’s work on branched chain reactions. Semenov is known as the first Soviet scientist to become a Nobel laureate, but less known is that he issued his theory as a response to a crisis of scientific credibility. Examining this trajectory reveals how issues of scientific credibility can lead to results that ultimately help to legitimize the broader political project, which is helpful for the theoretical goal of mapping how outputs of science can contribute to political legitimacy.

Název v anglickém jazyce

From Trust to Crisis: Scientific Credibility and Institutional Legitimacy in the 20th Century, Panel at 2025 History of Science Society Annual Meeting

Popis výsledku anglicky

Science and technology can contribute to legitimization. This is reflected in the recognition that the results of Soviet science helped to legitimize Soviet political actors and the Soviet project more broadly. An especially vivid demonstration of this comes from Kendall Bailes’ classic case-study on how the achievements of Soviet aviation were used by Stalin to legitimize his rule in the 1930s. The historical resources on science and (nondemocratic) political legitimization remain however unexploited in philosophers’ theoretical discussions concerning science, credibility, and legitimacy. The aim here is to establish a firmer link between philosophical accounts on the above themes and the works of historians, with a special focus on Soviet chemistry. The salience of science for political legitimacy is demonstrated by examining more closely Nikolai Semenov’s work on branched chain reactions. Semenov is known as the first Soviet scientist to become a Nobel laureate, but less known is that he issued his theory as a response to a crisis of scientific credibility. Examining this trajectory reveals how issues of scientific credibility can lead to results that ultimately help to legitimize the broader political project, which is helpful for the theoretical goal of mapping how outputs of science can contribute to political legitimacy.

Druh

M - Uspořádání konference

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Místo konání akce

New Orleans

Stát konání akce

US - Spojené státy americké

Datum zahájení akce

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Datum ukončení akce

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Celkový počet účastníků

5

Počet zahraničních účastníků

2

Typ akce podle státní přísl. účastníků

WRD - Celosvětová akce