Contested Boundaries: The String Theory Debates and Ideologies of Science

Autor:	Kristian Camilleri, Sophie Ritson
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Ethos Research program Multidisciplinary History and Philosophy of Science media_common.quotation_subject Appeal Ideology Sociology Construct (philosophy) String theory Boundary (real estate) media_common Epistemology
Zdroj:	Perspectives on Science. 23:192-227
ISSN:	1530-9274 1063-6145
DOI:	10.1162/posc_a_00168
Popis:	Over the last three decades, physicists have engaged in, sometimes heated, debates about relative merits and prospects of string theory as a viable research program and even about its status as a science. The aim of this paper is to provide a deeper understanding of this controversy as a particular form of boundary discourse. Drawing on the sociological work of Thomas Gieryn and Lawrence Prelli, we bring to light the way in which protagonists appeal to, and rhetorically construct, different views about the scientific method and the scientific ethos, in an effort to legitimize or delegitimize string theory.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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