By Daniel Marante
- The following text was written on assignment for the seminar Open Science: The Better Science? taught by Prof.: Katja Mayer; Faculty of Science and Technology Studies, University of Vienna, in January 2016 -
Abstract
In this blog post I review the
practices suggested by some founders of The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency
in the Social Sciences and authors of the article “Promoting Transparency in Social Science Research” (E. Miguel et al., 2014) and reflect on their
application over the fundamental arguments and key concepts of the STS field
taught by the University of Vienna in its STS MA Program. I have done this because
of my deep intellectual preoccupation when reasoning and understanding the way some influent STS scholars philosophically conceive the world as they perform research and particularly, when they try to explain not the social aspects intertwined inside the scientific institution, but the foundations, methods and implications of science itself.
