Participation and Objectivity
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Abstract Many philosophers of science have recently argued that extra-academic participation in scientific knowledge production does not threaten objectivity. Quite the contrary: Citizen science, participatory projects, transdisciplinary research, and other similar endeavours can even increase objectivity research conducted. Simultaneously, researchers working fields which such is common expressed worries about various ways it result biases. In this article I clarify how these arguments be compared, both
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Philosophy of Science
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0031-8248', '1539-767X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/psa.2022.77