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Originally Posted by roachboy
fact is that scientific work involves particular communities which are shaped socially in basic ways by the contexts within which they operate. there is no "Science" in general--there are particular disciplines, each of which is made up of networks and modes of social legitimation and social reproduction. it is not obvious that agents in scientific area 1, sub-group/field A know or need to know anything at all about what is happening in discipline 4. or even if there is a single coherent meta-discourse.
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Agreed. I know of "scientists" who work in the same building, who work on the same problem, who have no idea what the other person is doing. Each researcher approaches the problem from a different perspective and isn't interested in what the other person is doing.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
i should say that there is work in quite a few areas that i know of within the sciences that has very radical philosophical implications which could, if formalized, upset the applecart of much "normal science" in the wider fields, and more generally.
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For example?