Difference between revisions of "Social Agents of Scientific Change"

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|Question=What is the ontology of the social agents of scientific change? How should we ''define'' such terms as ''group'', ''community'', ''scientific community'' etc.?
 
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|Question=What is the ontology of the social agents of scientific change? How should we ''define'' such terms as ''group'', ''community'', ''scientific community'' etc.?
 
 
|Description=Scientonomists study mosaics of theories and methods of certain communities. What is the difference between ''community'' and ''group'', or ''community'' and ''scientific community''?  
 
|Description=Scientonomists study mosaics of theories and methods of certain communities. What is the difference between ''community'' and ''group'', or ''community'' and ''scientific community''?  
  
 
Proper definitions to these concepts will help clarify the basic taxonomy for the social agents of scientific change.
 
Proper definitions to these concepts will help clarify the basic taxonomy for the social agents of scientific change.
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|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard
 
|Formulated Year=2015
 
|Formulated Year=2015
|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard,
 
 
|Prehistory=Prehistory here
 
|Prehistory=Prehistory here
 
|History=History here
 
|History=History here
|Current View=There is currently no accepted taxonomy for the social agents of scientific change.[[CiteRef::Overgaard (2016)]]
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|Related Topics=Scientific Community,
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|Related Topics=Scientific Community
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|Editor Notes=How is this separate from Epistemic Agents page?
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Revision as of 11:09, 4 November 2022

What is the ontology of the social agents of scientific change? How should we define such terms as group, community, scientific community etc.?

Scientonomists study mosaics of theories and methods of certain communities. What is the difference between community and group, or community and scientific community? Proper definitions to these concepts will help clarify the basic taxonomy for the social agents of scientific change.

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Nicholas Overgaard in 2015.

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