One, perhaps intentional, effect of screening off the so-called ‘context of discovery’ as philosophically uninteresting, is to prevent engagement with so-called Marxist philosophy of science.
This seems very closely related to the machine-tool distinction I found in Marx recently and wrote about here
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/01/52657/
Ah yes the two distinctions support each other. I had not thought of transaction costs, but would be worth applying it to scientific organisations
This seems very closely related to the machine-tool distinction I found in Marx recently and wrote about here
https://crookedtimber.org/2024/05/01/52657/
Ah yes the two distinctions support each other. I had not thought of transaction costs, but would be worth applying it to scientific organisations