The Epistemic Significance of Collaborative Research
- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science
- Vol. 69 (1), 150-168
- https://doi.org/10.1086/338946
Abstract
I examine the epistemic import of collaborative research in science. I develop and defend a functional explanation for its growing importance. Collaborative research is becoming more popular in the natural sciences, and to a lesser degree in the social sciences, because contemporary research in these fields frequently requires access to abundant resources, for which there is great competition. Scientists involved in collaborative research have been very successful in accessing these resources, which has in turn enabled them to realize the epistemic goals of science more effectively than other scientists, thus creating a research environment in which collaboration is now the norm.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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