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Sarah Roe

Southern Connecticut State University
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  • Southern Connecticut State University
    Department of Philosophy
    Department of History
    Regular Faculty
University of California, Davis
Department of Philosophy
PhD
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Biology
General Philosophy of Science
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics
Philosophy of Biology
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality
General Philosophy of Science
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    The Journey from Discovery to Scientific Change: Scientific Communities, Shared Models, and Specialised Vocabulary
    International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 31 (1): 47-67. 2017.
    Scientific communities as social groupings and the role that such communities play in scientific change and the production of scientific knowledge is currently under debate. I examine theory change as a complex social interaction among individual scientists and the scientific community, and argue that individuals will be motivated to adopt a more radical or innovative attitude when confronted with striking similarities between model systems and a more robust understanding of specialised vocabula…Read more
    Scientific communities as social groupings and the role that such communities play in scientific change and the production of scientific knowledge is currently under debate. I examine theory change as a complex social interaction among individual scientists and the scientific community, and argue that individuals will be motivated to adopt a more radical or innovative attitude when confronted with striking similarities between model systems and a more robust understanding of specialised vocabulary. Two case studies from the biological sciences, Barbara McClintock and Stanley Prusiner, help motivate the idea that sharing of models and specialised vocabulary fill the gap between discovery and scientific change by promoting the dispersal of important information throughout the scientific community.
    Science, Logic, and Mathematics
  • A way forward for citizen science : taking advice from a madman
    In Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
  • Geographically gated communities: collective participation, marginalization, and the importance of shared values
    with Elyse Zavar
    In Kendy Hess, Violetta Igneski & Tracy Lynn Isaacs (eds.), Collectivity: Ontology, Ethics, and Social Justice, Rowman & Littlefield International. 2018.
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