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In this chapter we will extend the analysis of the previous chapter to the comparison of theories, giving rise to a definition of empirical progress and a sophisticated distinction between scientific and pseudoscientific behavior.
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See, e.g. Mulkay (1977) and Ziman (1994). Ziman not only shows that present-day research cannot be characterized by Mertons CUDOS norms, but even argues that its conditions can better be characterized by PLACE: Proprietary, Local, Authoritarian, Commissional, Expert work. From a personal communication with Matthias Kaiser, chair of the ICSU Standing Committee of Ethics and Responsibility in Science.
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Kuipers, T.A.F. (2001). Empirical Progress and Pseudoscience. In: Structures in Science. Synthese Library, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9739-5_8
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