Epistemic communities and their situated practices: Perspectival realism-a primer

Michela Massimi

doi:10.1111/nyas.14981

Epistemic communities and their situated practices: Perspectival realism-a primer

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2023 May;1523(1):5-10. doi: 10.1111/nyas.14981. Epub 2023 Mar 21.

Author

Michela Massimi¹

Affiliation

¹ University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

PMID: 36942753
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14981

Abstract

The epistemic feat that we call science is not an aseptic outcome of reasoning from an eternal viewpoint but the product of myriad epistemic communities with intersecting and interlacing scientific perspectives.