Science without the Romance
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Keywords
Science funding, finalization, Lakatos. Feyerabend, science policy, peer review
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1177_00483931221081066
Abstract
This is a commentary on William Lynch’s Minority Report, which is a synthesis of the last 75 years of STS writings with philosophical themes from Lakatos, Feyerabend, and others. The comment questions the continued relevance of older ideas of scientific opinion which rested on the supposed autonomy of scientists in the face of the present grant system and the bureaucracy of peer review. The magnitude of the funding of science, and its apparent biases, call the whole of the inherited view of science into question.
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Yes
Citation / Publisher Attribution
Philosophy of the Social Sciences, v. 52, issue 5, p. 299-305
Scholar Commons Citation
Turner, Stephen, "Science without the Romance" (2022). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 351.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/phi_facpub/351
