Normativity of Methods
This sub-wiki is dedicated to deliberations, open questions and new ideas about science. Often, these highlight how the choice and application of scientific methods and the interpretation of scientific results relate to values and norms, the philosophy of science and the general question how science relates to the 'real world'.
Normativity can be defined as related to any form of evaluation. Some things are evaluated to be better than others. Normativity of methods hence deals with the question of evaluation of methods by entities such as disciplines, scientific communities, cicil societies etc, and tries to link these reflections with a post-disciplinary agenda. In philosophy normativity os often associated to actions or mental states and the question what we ought to do, which is naturally linked to ethics. The choice of method within science is consequently also linked though the question of knowledge production, and is a normative choice.
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