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Research Enterprise in the Age of Machines

Severini, Simone; Borghini, Andrea

Taylor & Francis Ltd

03/2026

180

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Inglês

9781041148876

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Prologue Chapter 1: "Science": Notes on Science as a Dynamic Activity for Describing and Predicting 1.1 The Practical Value of Science 1.1.1 Exploration and Prediction 1.1.2 Phenomena 1.1.3 Between Practice and Theory 1.2 Scientific Languages 1.2.1 Preliminary Considerations 1.2.2 The Value of Formalization 1.3 Language and Epistemic Value 1.3.1 Communicability and Verifiability 1.3.2 Compactness 1.3.3 Applicability 1.3.4 The Uselessness of Science 1.4 Formal and Applied Truths 1.4.1 Formal Language as a Regulative Ideal 1.4.2 The Limits of Formal Language (through Machines) 1.4.3 Psychological Certainty rather than Truth 1.5 Limitations 1.5.1 The Language of Mathematics Is Fallible 1.5.2 Intractable Problems and Undecidable Problems 1.5.3 Scientific Discovery and the Dynamism of Knowledge Chapter 2: "Technology": Notes on Technology as the Activity of Building Machines and Procedures to Operate Them 2.1 In the Sea of Technologies 2.1.1 First Intuitions 2.1.2 Observation and Practical Reason 2.1.3 Formulation and Discovery 2.1.4 Serendipitous Discoveries 2.2 Utility, Utopia, Dystopia 2.2.1 Primary and Secondary Technologies 2.2.2 Five Parameters 2.2.3 Storytelling and Technology 2.3 Science and Technology 2.3.1 A Complex Relationship 2.3.2 Impact on Society Chapter 3: Making Science: Notes on How to Support Research while Avoiding Bias and Gossip 3.1 Publishing Today 3.1.1 The Primacy of the Scientific Article 3.1.2 The Literary Form of the Scientific Article 3.1.3 The Peer-Review Process 3.1.4 The Value of Publication 3.2 Looking for Alternatives 3.2.1 Against Peer Review 3.2.2 Open-Ended Scientific Articles 3.2.3 Reputation, Gossip, and Trust 3.2.4 Trust in Science as a Public Value 3.3 Research Funding 3.3.1 Support for Research, Quality, and Quantity 3.3.2 Access Criteria: Degrees and Types of Breakthroughs 3.3.3 The Importance of Context and the Streetlight Effect 3.3.4 How to Improve the System? Chapter 4: Machines for Science: Notes on the Scalability and Sustainability of the Scientific and Technological Enterprise 4.1 Scalability of Science 4.1.1 Technology in Mathematics 4.1.2 Science in a Graph? 4.1.3 Technology in a Graph? 4.1.4 A Science Database 4.1.5 Androids as Muses for Humans or Humans as Muses for Androids? 4.1.6 Science on a Hyperscale 4.1.7 Android Creativity and Human Creativity 4.2 Sustainability of Science 4.2.1 Phronesis 4.2.2 Innovation 4.2.3 Communicability 4.2.4 Risk 4.2.5 The Last Mile 4.2.6 Ordinariness Chapter 5: Epilogue: Notes on How to Guide the Construction of Machines for Future Science 5.1 Machines and People 5.2 Science for a House of Solomon 5.3 Draft of a Solomon's Almanac 5.3.1 What Is Science? 5.3.2 Science Done by Machines 5.3.3 What Is Technology? 5.3.4 Science and Technology I 5.3.5 Science and Technology II 5.3.6 The Value of Technology 5.3.7 The Role of Machines 5.3.8 The Role of Metascience 5.3.9 The Scientific Article 5.3.10 Science for Science's Sake 5.3.11 Science in a Relational Structure (Science beyond Scientific Literature 5.3.12 The Breakthrough 5.3.13 Funding Processes 5.3.14 The Context 5.3.15 Scalability 5.3.16 Words to Bet On 5.4 A Call to Action
metascience;research funding models;academic publishing reform;human machine collaboration;open science practices;technology transfer policy;artificial intelligence in scientific research