Science and the Public

Abstract

A remarkable feature of present-day science is that we know, or think we know, with self-evident certainty who is a scientist and who is a layperson, where science ends and where other forms of culture begin. And it is no less remarkable that the judgements of scientists and the laity on these matters display such a measure of agreement. In few instances are we even aware of engaging in decision. It is as if the notions of ‘science’ and ‘the public’ could simply be read from their exemplars by inspection. Even historians and sociologists of science, on the occasions when they do consider the categories of science and the public, tend to focus upon the relations between two known entities, rather than analysing how the entities are themselves constituted.

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