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|Question=What is the mechanism of discipline acceptance? How do disciplines become accepted?
 
|Question=What is the mechanism of discipline acceptance? How do disciplines become accepted?
 
|Topic Type=Descriptive
 
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|Description=Most [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic communities]] classify knowledge into categories. Some epistemic communities organize subcommunities devoted to expanding particular categories of knowledge. [[Discipline| Disciplines]] and disciplinary boundaries are ubiquitous features of modern science. Scientonomy has posited mechanisms of theory and question acceptance. How do new disciplines arise? Can they be said to be accepted by an epistemic agent, much as theories and questions are? If disciplines can become accepted then how do they become accepted? What, if any, is the relationship between the mechanisms by which theories and questions are accepted, and those by which disciplines are?  All of these are critically important questions in theoretical scientonomy.
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|Description=Most [[Epistemic Agent|epistemic communities]] classify knowledge into categories. Some epistemic communities organize subcommunities devoted to expanding particular categories of knowledge. [[Discipline| Disciplines]] and disciplinary boundaries are ubiquitous features of modern science. Scientonomy has posited mechanisms of [[Mechanism of Theory Acceptance|theory]] and [[Mechanism of Question Acceptance| question acceptance]]. How do new disciplines arise? Can they be said to be accepted by an epistemic agent, much as theories and questions are? If disciplines can become accepted then how do they become accepted? What, if any, is the relationship between the mechanisms by which theories and questions are accepted, and those by which disciplines are?  All of these are critically important questions in theoretical scientonomy.
 
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change
 
|Parent Topic=Mechanism of Scientific Change
 
|Authors List=Cyrus Al-Zayadi, Paul Patton
 
|Authors List=Cyrus Al-Zayadi, Paul Patton

Revision as of 19:27, 3 August 2021

What is the mechanism of discipline acceptance? How do disciplines become accepted?

Most epistemic communities classify knowledge into categories. Some epistemic communities organize subcommunities devoted to expanding particular categories of knowledge. Disciplines and disciplinary boundaries are ubiquitous features of modern science. Scientonomy has posited mechanisms of theory and question acceptance. How do new disciplines arise? Can they be said to be accepted by an epistemic agent, much as theories and questions are? If disciplines can become accepted then how do they become accepted? What, if any, is the relationship between the mechanisms by which theories and questions are accepted, and those by which disciplines are? All of these are critically important questions in theoretical scientonomy.

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