This <b>Encyclopedia The purpose of [[Scientonomy]]</b> this encyclopedia is to trace, document, and promote the development of scientonomy, the newly emerging empirical science of scientific change. It pursues three major goals:
# Outline with encyclopedic rigor ''the current state'' of our knowledge the views of scientonomy community concerning the mechanism of scientific change, including changes in both [[Theory|theories]] and [[Method|methods]] of their evaluation.
# Trace and document ''all changes'' in the field of [[Scientonomy|scientonomy]], as they are proposed and [[Theory Acceptance|accepted]] by the scientonomic community.
# List and outline ''the open questions'' concerning the process of scientific change and thus assist with future research in the field.