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Radical Uncertainty in Scientific Discovery Work

机译:科学发现工作中的根本不确定性

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Radical uncertainty is a concept currently debated, for example, in the economics literature to theorize the impossibility of foreseeing the outcomes of scientific and technological development work. The purpose of this study is to extend the concept to articulate and theorize the minute-to-minute transactions in scientific laboratories. Empirical materials resulting from five years of ethnographic work in one laboratory focusing on fish vision are used to show how scientists produce a material continuity between some natural phenomena and the way they are represented in scientific discourse. Because the outcomes of scientists' actions (i.e., observations) sometimes turn out to be uncertain, the material (practical) actions that produce this continuity themselves retroactively become uncertain. Scientists may at any one point determine that what they had done is not what they thought and said to have done. Actions and the objects they produce therefore stand in a dialectical relationship: they produce, mutually presuppose, and in their respective materiality, stabilize one another.
机译:激进的不确定性是当前正在争论的一个概念,例如,在经济学文献中,该理论将理论上无法预测科学和技术发展工作的可能性推论为是。这项研究的目的是扩展概念,以阐明和理论化科学实验室中的分钟到分钟的事务。在一个专注于鱼类视力的实验室中,由五年的人种学工作产生的经验材料被用来表明科学家如何在某些自然现象及其在科学论述中的表示方式之间产生物质连续性。由于有时科学家的行动(即观察)的结果是不确定的,因此产生这种连续性的物质(实际)行动本身就具有不确定性。科学家可以在任何时候确定他们所做的不是他们认为的和所说的所做的。因此,动作和它们产生的对象之间存在辩证关系:它们相互假设,并且在彼此的实质性上相互稳定。

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