Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen (2023) seek to identify a more pragmatic and fruitful criterion for demarcating academic from commercial research. Having described the limitations of criteria based on epistemic success they propose adopting the Mertonian social norm of… Read More ›
Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen (2023) raise a familiar and deeply troubling problem: commercial research is widespread in contemporary science, but epistemically problematic in various ways. Commercial research violates various core norms of science and has as one of… Read More ›
In “The Emergence of Intersectional Disadvantage,” O’Connor, Bright, and Bruner model identity-based oppression as the result of bargaining interactions between groups. They find that when individuals interact both within and between groups, minorities tend to be disadvantaged and that this… Read More ›