НАУЧНАЯ КОЛЛАБОРАЦИЯ: ФИЛОСОФСКО-МЕТОДОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ

Translated title of the contribution: Collaboration in science: Philosophical and methodological problems

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Abstract

The article provides a brief overview of the philosophical and methodological problems of modern collaborative research. Collaborations - distributed organizations with variable membership, consisting of a large number (sometimes several thousand) of participants - are common in experimental high-energy physics studying microcosm objects, elementary particles arising in collisions of beams of accelerated particles and nuclei at collider accelerators, as well as in biomedicine and climatology. The central issues are authorship, epistemic ownership and dependence in collaborations, the division of epistemic labor in interdisciplinary research, as well as related issues of scientific organization - peer review and distribution of credit in a team. Formally, the author, conceived as a list of persons appearing as authors of a collaborative scientific work, seems to be defined by the specific participants of the collaboration core, i.e., is a construct. However, the question can also be understood as “What does it mean to be the author of a scientific work?”, and then the answer becomes much less certain. Authorship of thousand-people articles is justified psychologically as the desire for regular performance of a ritual, which allows demonstrating joint belonging to a certain tradition, such as a long experiment, affiliation with the “workshop” of scientists studying phenomena of the microworld, which allows scientists, despite of their daily preoccupation with technical routines, to distinguish themselves from non-epistemic communities (engineers, technicians). However, specific rules that determine exactly who and why are worthy of being included as co-authors have been undergoing changes in recent years. In addition to theoretical significance, many of the problems discussed are related to actual practical issues of scientometry and the organization of scientific research, and therefore approaches to their solution can be directly embodied in scientific policy.

Translated title of the contributionCollaboration in science: Philosophical and methodological problems
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)112-116
Number of pages5
JournalEpistemology and Philosophy of Science
Volume57
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2021
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Authorship
  • Collaboration
  • Credit
  • Division of epistemic labor

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