Uygun Tunc, Duygu (2024) Can economic approaches to science do away with epistemic virtue? In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
Economic approaches to science underline the social structure of science as the chief explanatory factor in its collective epistemic success, and typically endorse a common conclusion, namely that individual virtue is neither necessary nor sufficient for science to be successful. We analyze a central example, the invisible hand argument, in reference to a case of collective epistemic failure, namely the credibility crisis. While divergent motivations might also serve the collective goals of science, our analysis shows that the presence of a significant proportion of virtuous scientists in a scientific community is a necessary condition for its success.
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Keywords: | Social Structure of Science Epistemic virtue scientific success credibility crisis scientific rationality | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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Depositing User: | Duygu Uygun Tunc | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2024 13:17 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 12 Nov 2024 13:17 | ||||||
Item ID: | 24198 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science General Issues > Values In Science |
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Date: | 2024 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24198 |
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