In the twenty-first century, the wealth of any society is closely tied to the degree that its people understand and support science. Whether in the United States or the People's Republic of China, it is important to e...
Supported by “the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities”;Interdisciplinary Research Project for Young Teachers of University of Science and Technology Beijing (No. FRF-IDRY-22-027);“Research on the Localization of Modern and Contemporary Technology in China” (No.FRF-BR-23-04B)
As important public venues for the communication of scientific culture, science and technology museums are increasingly valued for their role in enhancing the public's scientific literacy. In recent years, research on...
The generation and dissemination of scientific knowledge are closely related to group beliefs among scientists and the public. There are three main types of group beliefs: the summative account, the acceptance account...
supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and a research project titled‘Research on the Modern History of China’s Science Popularization:A Case Study of Major Science and Cultural Organizations’sponsored by China Research Institute for Science Popularization
As one of China's oldest and most comprehensive popular-science journals, Science Pictorial has long been dedicated to promoting science and enhancing public scientific literacy. This paper presents a textual analysis...
supported by a general research programme‘Research on the Compilation System of Primary School Science Textbooks with Marxist Epistemology as a Main Theme’under the 2023 Henan Province Education Sciences Plan launched by the Education Department of Henan Province(grant no.2023YB0610)
Since 2008, the author of this paper has conducted historiographic research on the visual history of science in the West since the mid-twentieth century. The findings show that the cognitive functions of visual scient...
In the current development of science communication, to achieve the desired communication objectives,either in formal science education or science popularization for the public, the utilization of resources on the his...
Journal Description Cultures of Science is a peer-reviewed international Open Access journal. The journal aims at building a community of scholars who are expecting to carry out international, inter-disciplinary and c...
As per conventional wisdom, scientists and the lay public differ in their epistemic abilities. Based on an analysis of a public debate on Pu'er tea, this paper emphasizes that there are differences between scientists ...
supported by the Youth Program of National Social Science Fund of China‘A Cognitive Phenomenological Study of Enactivism’(grant number 19CZX013);the Major Program of National Social Science Fund of China‘Philosophical Research on the Challenge of Artificial Cognition to Natural Cognition’(grant number 21&ZD061);the General Program of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Shanxi Province’s Universities‘Research on Philosophical Problems of Enactive Cognition’(grant number201803071)
The current prevailing embodied cognitive science is essentially the result of the pragmatic turn of cognitive science, and enactivism is the epitome of this turn. For a long time, most advocates of enactivism have co...
supported by a research project titled ‘The Growth Path of Strategic Scientists based on case studies’ launched by the National Academy of Innovation Strategy,CAST (grant no 2022-sjzx-05)
In this paper, 18 scientists from China and other countries were selected for consideration as case studies of‘strategic scientists'. They were chosen according to their involvement in science and technology policy d...