Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Institutionalization of Research
October 9, 2007 at 4:36 pm 1 comment
ADAM R. NELSON, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This paper can be downloaded from http://www.wun.ac.uk/theglobaluniversity/workshop.html
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Ian Wei | October 22, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Thank you for a fascinating and very stimulating paper. Can I ask two questions?
1. How did scholars like Jefferson justify or explain their conviction that science could and should transcend competition between nations? Or was theorisation of their position not deemed necessary?
2. Could I also ask about the comment that scientists of this era shared ‘a belief that national identity shaped their work in crucial ways’? Was there a sense that American science was in some way different from science in other nations, and was this held to reflect national character? In my position paper for the conference session on 15th November I briefly mention Charles Villers who in 1808 argued that each European nation had a different character which led them to excel in different forms of learning. Was anything of this approach to be found in America?
Ian Wei