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Science of Science
- slim 7y agothis is not science of science. at most you could call it "engineering of science". science of science is epistemology
- srfilipek 7y ago> science of science is epistemology That would be the Philosophy of Science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science
- camelNotation 7y agoEpistemology is the study of knowledge. If science isn't a form of knowledge, what is?
- stillbourne 7y agoYou are not wrong but he's not either. The science of science, or metascience, is a field of epistemology, is a philosophy of science. They are all part of the same thing.
- nabla9 7y agoScience of science is metascience aka meta-research. Applying scientific method to science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metascience http://metrics.stanford.edu/ http://metrics.stanford.edu/ Epistemology is philosophy of knowledge, justification, and the rationality of belief. Epistemologists don't use methods that would make it science.
- aldoushuxley001 7y agoIs the scientific method really being applied here though? Certainly doesn't look like it.
- dfeliej 7y agoSome of the research in this area is misleading, I'd even maybe say poorly conducted, and I worry it will be taken too much at face value by policy-makers and administrators. The conclusion that institutition doesn't matter, for example, seems ridiculous and flies in the face of a lot of IO research. People move for reasons, for example; the question isn't whether productivity changes after a move on average, it's what would have happened to an individual researcher if they had stayed in a given situation relative to what would have happened after a move to another situation. There's a lot of cliques, the moves aren't random, etc. It's a bit like concluding that you can determine the importance of a paper solely by looking at the impact factor of a journal.
- ggg2 7y agothis sounds like a forced meta analysis field that could easily fall with existing ones under work/education studies. if you want the real deal for the title, see STS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_society https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology_and_societ...