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A Social Epistemology of Research Groups

Susann Wagenknecht (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

187 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-52409-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

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.

“Susann Wagenknecht has written an important book that uses empirical methods for testing and refining philosophical theories about the nature and collaborative creation of scientific knowledge. …I believe this is the first book that makes a serious attempt to study these philosophical topics with an empirical methodology. The book delivers important insights and is recommended reading for both philosophers and social scientists interested in epistemic collaboration and creation of scientific knowledge.” (Raul Hakli, Metascience, July, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	06.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Zusatzinfo	IX, 187 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	collective knowledge • Epistemic dependence • Epistemic trust • Field Observation • interdisciplinary research • Interviews • philosophy of science • Research groups • scientific collaboration • Scientific Knowledge • scientific practice • Social epistemology
ISBN-10	1-137-52409-X / 113752409X
ISBN-13	978-1-137-52409-6 / 9781137524096
Zustand	Neuware