期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2014
卷号：7
期号：2
页码：181-184
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools to manage scientific research. Focusing on the mechanisms of ignorance production, the recent literature in agnotology has been a fruitful approach for understanding the social and epistemological consequences that emerge in commercialized science today. Strictly speaking, agnotology is the study of ignorance broadly conceived. Agnotology's innovative contribution to the studies of science stems from its treatment of ignorance as a social construction, one that differs from the traditional conception of ignorance as a natural vacuum (Proctor 2008). Agnotology has uncovered different ways in which the commercialization of scientific research has encouraged the production of ignorance, thus challenging the epistemic adequacy of the current social organization of science. Consequently, agnotology has made evident the need for a well-articulated normative approach capable of identifying and evaluating the epistemic concerns raised by the private funding and performance of science. Although philosophers of science have dealt with some of the social aspects of scientific knowledge production, they have yet to articulate an appropriate social epistemology that addresses these pressing issues. In my dissertation I take up this task.
