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ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN SCIENCE

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN SCIENCE This paper arises out of a keynote presentation given at the inaugural Science in Society conference at the University of Cambridge, 5-7 August, 2009.1 It emerges from some thinking about the nature of openness as a philosophical concept that I develop in a book called The Virtues of Openness: Education, Science and Scholarship in the Digital Age coauthored with Peter Roberts (Paradigm Press, 2011). Philosophy of open science rests on seven interrelated propositions that I state here without justification or argument. They are, if you will, ‘observations’ or working hypotheses to be confirmed (or falsified). Each of these propositions has a complex and contested history in philosophy and science and the aim of this paper is to scope the philosophy of open science rather than to defend seven these propositions. The first part of the paper discusses narratives of openness, focusing on the major philosophical conceptions as they have been developed by Henri Bergson, Karl Popper (and Friedrich Hayek, George Soros), Ludwig Wittgenstein and Unmberto Eco, teasing out the significance of a Wittgensteinian view of open science. The next section foregrounds ‘technologies of openness’ and their relations to scientific communication before highlighting ‘open science’ as an aspect of an emergent global science system. Keywords: philosophy, open, science, Wittgenstein, technology, digital http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Contemporary Philosophy Addleton Academic Publishers

ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPEN SCIENCE

MICHAEL A. PETERS
Review of Contemporary Philosophy , Volume 9 (1): 105-142 – Jan 1, 2010
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This paper arises out of a keynote presentation given at the inaugural Science in Society conference at the University of Cambridge, 5-7 August, 2009.1 It emerges from some thinking about the nature of openness as a philosophical concept that I develop in a book called The Virtues of Openness: Education, Science and Scholarship in the Digital Age coauthored with Peter Roberts (Paradigm Press, 2011). Philosophy of open science rests on seven interrelated propositions that I state here without justification or argument. They are, if you will, ‘observations’ or working hypotheses to be confirmed (or falsified). Each of these propositions has a complex and contested history in philosophy and science and the aim of this paper is to scope the philosophy of open science rather than to defend seven these propositions. The first part of the paper discusses narratives of openness, focusing on the major philosophical conceptions as they have been developed by Henri Bergson, Karl Popper (and Friedrich Hayek, George Soros), Ludwig Wittgenstein and Unmberto Eco, teasing out the significance of a Wittgensteinian view of open science. The next section foregrounds ‘technologies of openness’ and their relations to scientific communication before highlighting ‘open science’ as an aspect of an emergent global science system. Keywords: philosophy, open, science, Wittgenstein, technology, digital

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Published: Jan 1, 2010

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