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|Authors List=Cyrus Al-Zayadi, Paul Patton
|Resource=Patton and Al-Zayadi (2021)
|Preamble=Most [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic communities]] classify knowledge into categories. Some epistemic communities organize subcommunities devoted to expanding particular categories of knowledge. Disciplines and disciplinary boundaries are a ubiquitous feature of modern science, and it is thus urgent that scientonomy articulate a means of dealing with them. The question of how disciplinary boundaries exist in the [[Scientific MosaicDiscipline| mosaicswhat disciplines are]] of an epistemic agent was [[Status of Disciplinary Boundaries| first raised as an open question at the Scientonomy Seminar in 2016 ]].
Defining disciplines or categories of knowledge within scientonomy is crucial to our understanding of how epistemic elements relate to one another in the mosaic, how they relate to epistemic agents, and to our general understanding of the processes of scientific change. Our understanding of how the classification of knowledge into categories has changed through time holds the promise of revealing important new features of how epistemic and non-epistemic factors interact with one another in the production of knowledge. This proposed modification offers, for the first time, a scientonomic definition of discipline, considered as a category of knowledge within the mosaic. We define notions of discipline acceptance and rejection, and consider the relationship between disciplines and communal epistemic agents.
