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[[Barseghyan (2015)]] discusses and rejects two views that relate the individual and the social: the ''elitist'' and ''majoritarianist'' views. The elitist view holds that the mosaic of a scientific community comes to reflect the individual scientific mosaic of prominent scientists and figureheads in the community. The majoritarianist view holds that the mosaic of the community reflects the mosaic that a majority of individuals themselves hold.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 48-51]] | [[Barseghyan (2015)]] discusses and rejects two views that relate the individual and the social: the ''elitist'' and ''majoritarianist'' views. The elitist view holds that the mosaic of a scientific community comes to reflect the individual scientific mosaic of prominent scientists and figureheads in the community. The majoritarianist view holds that the mosaic of the community reflects the mosaic that a majority of individuals themselves hold.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 48-51]] | ||
Revision as of 18:48, 31 March 2023
What is the relation between the communal and the individual level? To what extent can the individual level epistemic stances tell about the communal level?
What is the relation between the mosaic of a communal epistemic agent and the mosaics of the members of that community? Is it possible to reduce the communal mosaic to a function of the mosaics of individuals? Barseghyan (2015) discusses and rejects two views that relate the individual and the social: the elitist and majoritarianist views. The elitist view holds that the mosaic of a scientific community comes to reflect the individual scientific mosaic of prominent scientists and figureheads in the community. The majoritarianist view holds that the mosaic of the community reflects the mosaic that a majority of individuals themselves hold.1pp. 48-51
In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Paul Patton, Calahan Janik-Jones, Patrick Fraser and Ameer Sarwar in 2018. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.
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| Scientonomy | 25 January 2018 | It was acknowledged as an open question by the Scientonomy Seminar 2018. | Yes |
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- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
