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1Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, 110 Avenue des Pins Ouest, Montréal, QC, H2W 1R7, Canada.
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
|March 12, 2017
Summary
This study critiques the "repertoires" framework for understanding scientific change, arguing it remains internalist. It suggests incorporating audience and ethical imagination for a more complete, critical perspective in science and technology studies.
Area of Science:
- Philosophy of Science
- Science and Technology Studies (STS)
Background:
- Ankeny and Leonelli's "repertoires" framework offers a post-Kuhnian approach to scientific stability and change.
- This framework integrates social, material, and epistemic elements, aiming to correct limitations in previous models.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the completeness of the
Main Methods:
- Comparative analysis of Ankeny and Leonelli's "repertoires" with Jasanoff and Kim's "sociotechnical imaginaries."
- Examination of how different frameworks account for social, material, and epistemic factors in scientific practice.
Main Results:
- The "repertoires" framework, despite its aims, maintains an internalist perspective by externalizing the role of audience.
- Ethical and political imagination are also downplayed in the "repertoires" model, limiting its scope.
- A distinction emerges between internalist and critical modes of scholarship in science studies.
Conclusions:
- The "repertoires" framework can be modified to be more critical and less internalist.
- The choice to modify the framework depends on the desired goals and achievements of scholarship in science and technology studies.
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