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Revision as of 20:39, 1 September 2016

This Encyclopedia of Scientonomy pursues three major goals:

1. Outline with encyclopedic rigor the current state of our knowledge concerning the mechanism of scientific change, including changes in both theories and methods of their evaluation.

2. Trace and document all changes in the field of scientonomy, as they are proposed and accepted by the scientonomic community.

3. List and outline the open questions concerning the process of scientific change and thus assist with future research in the field.

Semantic Map

This encyclopedia uses the Semantic approach: the author's don't write their articles in a purely textual fashion (as is the case in most encyclopedias), but are asked to enter the data in a structured, semantically meaningful way. Thus, once entered on any page, the information is stored in the database of this encyclopedia and is then automatically retrieved on any other relevant page. For instance, a theory's page allows the authors to enter the dates when the theory was accepted by different communities. Once this acceptance record is entered, it is stored in the database and is then shown automatically on the respective topic's page. Consider, for instance, the history section of the topic Mechanism of Method Employment; this section is generated automatically based on the individual acceptance records of the respective theories that attempt to answer the question of method employment, such as The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) or The Third Law (Sebastien-2016). This makes it possible to trace the acceptance history of any theory or topic, keep track of the suggested modifications, etc.

This approach applies to all the categories of this encyclopedia:

  • Community: This category lists all the communities recorded in this encyclopedia.
  • Topic: These are all the questions that a community can accept as legitimate topics for research. The topics can be definitional, descriptive, or normative.
  • Theory: This category includes all the individual propositions that attempt to define, describe, or prescribe something. Theories are attempts to answer a certain question (topic); thus, theories also come in three types: definitions, descriptive theories, and normative theories.
  • Modification: Suggested modifications are attempts to convince a community to change its views on a certain topic, i.e. to accept and/or reject a theory.

Here is the basic semantic map of this encyclopedia. Click on a category, to go to the respective page:

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How to Become an Author?

If you wish to become an author and contribute to the encyclopedia, please email the co-editors in chief Hakob Barseghyan, Nicholas Overgaard or Paul Patton.

Guidelines

Guidelines for Authors

Guidelines for Readers

Sample Articles

Scientific Mosaic

Open Questions

List of Open Questions

References

  1. ^  Shaw, Jamie and Barseghyan, Hakob. (2019) Problems and Prospects with the Scientonomic Workflow. Scientonomy 3, 1-14. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/33509.