AW: [SIGMETRICS] Is The Science of Science As A Field of Study In Its Own Right Alive Or Dead?

[Lietz, Haiko]

Hi Clifford,

A starting point for the computational approach might be:

Models of Science Dynamics
Encounters Between Complexity Theory and Information Sciences
Series: Understanding Complex Systems
Scharnhorst, Andrea, Börner, Katy, Besselaar, Peter (Eds.)
http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/book/978-3-642-23067-7

Haiko


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I am trying to identify whether there is a core field of study in the science of science as a field of study in its own right and if so what are its main related works.  I am looking for published work which is the product of scientific study of science and which is, unlike the philosophy of science, based on observation and empirical evidence and is directed to answering the questions "what is science and the nature of science?".

There seems to be no shortage of work on the sociology of science, the history of science, science policy, the philosophy of science, metascience and epistemology.

Or has everyone has given up on the science of science as a field of study per se following the controversies in the philosophy of science since Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions", the disputes which followed Popper's "Logic of Scientific Discovery" and the failure of attempts at demarcation.  There is also a modern view that there is no particular identifiable scientific method, which of course makes a scientific approach to classification in a science of science a little more difficult.

Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is in a sense a work on the science of science in that it relies on empirical evidence of Kuhn's experience of what science is and his knowledge from his work on the history of science.
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