Overgaard (2017)

Overgaard, Nicholas. (2017) A Taxonomy for the Social Agents of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 1, 55-62. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/28234.

Title	A Taxonomy for the Social Agents of Scientific Change
Resource Type	journal article
Author(s)	Nicholas Overgaard
Year	2016
Journal	Scientonomy
Volume	1

Theories

Here are all the theories formulated in Overgaard (2017):

Theory	Type	Formulation	Formulated In
Community (Overgaard-2017)	Definition	A group that has a collective intentionality.	2017
Group (Overgaard-2017)	Definition	Two or more people who share any characteristic.	2017
Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017)	Definition	A community that has a collective intentionality to know the world.	2017
Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017)	Definition	A community that does not have a collective intentionality to know the world.	2017
Accidental Group (Overgaard-2017)	Definition	A group that does not have a collective intentionality.	2017
Epistemic Community Can be Part of Non-Epistemic Community (Overgaard-2017)	Descriptive	A non-epistemic community can consist of epistemic communities.	2017
Community Can Have Subcommunities (Overgaard-2017)	Descriptive	A community can consist of other communities.	2017
Epistemic Community Exists	Descriptive	There is such a thing as an epistemic community.	2017

Suggested Modifications

Here are all the modifications suggested in Overgaard (2017):

• Sciento-2017-0012: Accept a new taxonomy for group and its two sub-types - accidental group, and community. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Nicholas Overgaard on 19 May 2017.1 The modification was accepted on 2 February 2018. A consensus has emerged after a long discussion that the distinction and the respective definitions should be accepted. It was noted that "these formulations tend to be the starting point for so many of our discussions"^c1 and that "despite all disagreements that this taxonomy causes, it is actually accepted by the community".^c2 Yet, it was also indicated that whereas the definition of group as "two or more people that share a characteristic" is the best we have at the moment, it may be potentially necessary to pursue the idea of redefining it as "one or more people..." to allow for one-scientist communities.^c3 Finally, while a question was raised whether there is any "value in defining accidental groups as something separate from groups",^c4 it was eventually agreed that it is important to draw "a clear distinction between the two kinds of groups as accidental groups and communities".^c5
• Sciento-2017-0013: Accept that communities can consist of other communities, i.e. that there is such a thing as a sub-community. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Nicholas Overgaard on 19 May 2017.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.
• Sciento-2017-0014: Provided that the definition of community is accepted, accept new definitions of epistemic community and non-epistemic community as sub-types of community. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Nicholas Overgaard on 19 May 2017.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending.
• Sciento-2017-0015: Provided that the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic communities is accepted, accept that a non-epistemic community can consist of epistemic communities. The modification was suggested to Scientonomy community by Nicholas Overgaard on 19 May 2017.1 The modification is currently being evaluated; a verdict is pending. The modification can only become accepted once modifications Sciento-2017-0013 and Sciento-2017-0014 all become accepted.