Big science collaboration as a challenge to transcendental subject

Some time ago, Chinese historians have addressed the US History of Science Society (Society for the history of Science) with a request to recommend them to some of the most important, according to the company, works of modern Western history of science for their immediate translation into the Chinese language. Among the three dozen works, which American historians have proposed is imperative to introduce Chinese readers, was the work of Peter it is full of surprises "Collective author". I think it is important that the Russian philosophers and historians of science had the opportunity to see one of the pivotal works of leading American historian and philosopher of science. The article by Peter Galison "Collective author" can be considered a conceptual continuation of his well-known books [Galison 1987] and [Galison 2007] devoted to the history, sociology and epistemology of the physical experiment of the 20th century. Premised on scrutiny of the structure and interactions of the communities engaged in contemporary large-scale accelerator-based physics experiments in elementary particle physics (also known as high-energy physics), Galison's analysis reveals new and important features of scientific authorship by thousand-people collaborative teams. Turning to the Kantian idea of the transcendental subject, the poststructuralist concept of "death of the author" and the metaphor of the "hive-I", he depicts how the author dramatically loses his former unity in contemporary big science becoming a fragmented and unstable entity. Galison seeks to answer the question what this change implies for the nature of knowledge.