A Social Epistemology of Research Groups

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Beschreibung

This book investigates how collaborative scientific practice yields scientific knowledge. At a time when most of today¿s scientific knowledge is created in research groups, the author reconsiders the social character of science to address the question of whether collaboratively created knowledge should be considered as collective achievement, and if so, in which sense. Combining philosophical analysis with qualitative empirical inquiry, this book provides a comparative case study of mono- and interdisciplinary research groups, offering insight into the day-to-day practice of scientists. The book includes field observations and interviews with scientists to present an empirically-grounded perspective on much-debated questions concerning research groups¿ division of labor, relations of epistemic dependence and trust.

Über den Autor

Susann Wagenknecht is an interdisciplinary researcher at the intersection of philosophy of science, social epistemology, and qualitative empirical methods. She received her PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2014. Since then, she has published on epistemic trust and dependence in Episteme and Social Epistemology; and co-edited together with Hanne Andersen and Nancy J. Nersessian the volume Empirical Philosophy of Science (Springer, 2015).

Zusammenfassung

Combines empirical research and philosophical analysis to offer new insight into research practice

Provides readers with a distinct approach to integrating philosophical analysis with first-hand qualitative data

Reflects researchers' continued interest in the inner workings of interdisciplinary research

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Research Groups.- 3. Method.- 4. The Planetary Science Group.- 5. The molecular Biology Laboratory.- 6. Division of Labour.- 7. Epistemic Dependence.- 8. Epistemic Trust.- 9. Collaboration and collective knowledge.- 10. Concluding remarks.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Inhalt:	ix 187 S.
ISBN-13:	9781137524096
ISBN-10:	113752409X
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Wagenknecht, Susann
Auflage:	1st ed. 2016
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan UK New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Maße:	216 x 153 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Susann Wagenknecht
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.12.2016
Gewicht:	0,378 kg

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