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A Social Epistemology of Research Groups

Part of the New Directions in the Philosophy of Science Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-52410-2

ISBN: 978-1-137-52409-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 6, 2016

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Introduction

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 1 –18

[Today’s natural science has become a highly collaborative endeavor. To create scientific knowledge, scientists with specialized expertise observe systematically, analyze data and interpret combined experimental evidence to formulate a scientific knowledge claim. In so doing, most scientists...
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Research Groups

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 19 –34

[Since in this book I am attempting to provide a social epistemology of research group collaboration, this chapter introduces research groups both as an empirical phenomenon and as an object of philosophical analysis. To do so, let me begin by saying what I mean by “research group.” I use the...
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Method

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 35 –57

[In this chapter, I will explain how I combine philosophical theorizing with first-hand empirical insights that I have gained through the use of qualitative empirical methods. When I decided to make extensive use of these methods, I decided to move out of philosophy’s comfort zone....
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The Planetary Science Group

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 59 –73

[The first group that I have studied empirically through observation and interviewing is the planetary science group, which is a small but long-standing interdisciplinaryinterdisciplinary research collaboration among senior researchers and their graduate and post-graduate students. The group...
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The Molecular Biology Laboratory

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 75 –90

[Drawing on professional contacts that my supervisor happened to have, I began extending my fieldwork to a second research group—a research laboratory in the field of molecular biology that differs from the planetary science group in its mono-disciplinarymono-disciplinary research orientation,...
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Division of Labor

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 91 –108

[Research groups divide the kind of labor that it takes to create scientific knowledge among their members—cognitive labor, but also the manual labor of experimental practice and the social effort that it takes for a group member to interact. But how do groups divide labor? And hence, what does...
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Epistemic Dependence

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 109 –130

[When scientific, knowledge-creating labor is divided among the members of a research group, these members come to depend upon one another. Evidenceevidence has to be gathered, arguments have to be formulated and collaborating scientists have to rely on one another for the bits and pieces of...
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Epistemic Trust

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 131 –152

[Trust, in its vernacular meaning, is a blurred concept with many facets. This being the case, it should be all the more important for philosophical accounts to be selective about the aspects of trust that are to be studied and the function that it is supposed to perform. It should also be...
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Collaboration and Collective Knowledge

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 153 –171

[For the two research groups studied, Chaps. 6, 7 and 8 have described how research efforts are divided among group members, how such division of labordivision of labor creates relations of epistemic dependencedependence, epistemic and how such dependence relations are facilitated by trust.trust,...
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Concluding Remarks

Wagenknecht, Susann

Pages: 173 –178

[In this book, I have sought to provide a comprehensive, empirically grounded account of the collaborative creation of scientific knowledge in research groups. I hope to have contributed to a detailed understanding of the collective character of science, an understanding that reflects actual...

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