Epistemic divergence and the publicity of scientific methods
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 34 (3):597-612 (2003)
| Abstract | Epistemic divergence occurs when different investigators give different answers to the same question using evidence-collecting methods that are not public. Without following the principle that scientific methods must be public, scientific communities risk epistemic divergence. I explicate the notion of public method and argue that, to avoid the risk of epistemic divergence, scientific communities should (and do) apply only methods that are public. | |||||||||
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