Heesen, Remco and Bright, Liam Kofi (2020) Is Peer Review a Good Idea? The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1464-3537
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Prepublication peer review should be abolished. We consider the effects that such a change will have on the social structure of science, paying particular attention to the changed incentive structure and the likely effects on the behavior of individual scientists. We evaluate these changes from the perspective of epistemic consequentialism. We find that where the effects of abolishing prepublication peer review can be evaluated with a reasonable level of confidence based on presently available evidence, they are either positive or neutral. We conclude that on present evidence abolishing peer review weakly dominates the status quo.
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| Keywords: | Philosophy of science; Social epistemology; Peer review; Credit economy | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Remco Heesen | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 28 May 2020 02:55 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 09 Aug 2023 14:11 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 17245 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axz029 | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1093/bjps/axz029 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Decision Theory General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Date: | 16 May 2020 | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1464-3537 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17245 |
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