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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Design Rules: Industrial Research and Epistemic Merit*
Beteiligte:
Wilholt, Torsten
Erschienen:
The University of Chicago Press, 2006
Erschienen in:Philosophy of Science
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1086/510175
ISSN:
0031-8248;
1539-767X
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Beschreibung:
<p>A common complaint against the increasing privatization of research is that research that is conducted with the immediate purpose of producing applicable knowledge will not yield knowledge as valuable as that generated in more curiosity‐driven, academic settings. In this paper, I make this concern precise and reconstruct the rationale behind it. Subsequently, I examine the case of industry research on the giant magnetoresistance effect in the 1990s as a characteristic example of research undertaken under considerable pressure to produce applicable results. The example permits one to arrive at a more optimistic assessment of the epistemic merits of private, application‐driven research. I attempt to specify the conditions that, in this case, advanced the production of interesting and reliable knowledge.</p>