Collaboration,interdisciplinarity, and the epistemology of contemporary science |
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Authors: | Hanne Andersen |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, United States;2. Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, United States;1. Michigan State University, Philosophy Department, United States;2. Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, United States;3. Michigan State University, AgBioResearch, United States |
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Abstract: | Over the last decades, science has grown increasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary and has come to depart in important ways from the classical analyses of the development of science that were developed by historically inclined philosophers of science half a century ago. In this paper, I shall provide a new account of the structure and development of contemporary science based on analyses of, first, cognitive resources and their relations to domains, and second of the distribution of cognitive resources among collaborators and the epistemic dependence that this distribution implies. On this background I shall describe different ideal types of research activities and analyze how they differ. Finally, analyzing values that drive science towards different kinds of research activities, I shall sketch the main mechanisms underlying the perceived tension between disciplines and interdisciplinarity and argue for a redefinition of accountability and quality control for interdisciplinary and collaborative science. |
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Keywords: | Interdisciplinarity Collaboration Disciplines Epistemic Dependence Accountability Quality control |
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