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How Can Science Be Well-Ordered in Times of Crisis? Learning from the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic (2020)

Reydon, Thomas A. C. (Author)

History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume: 42
Issue: 4
Pages: 53

DOI: 10.1007/s40656-020-00348-5

URI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00348-5

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic constituted a crisis situation in which science was very far from Kitcher’s ideal of well-ordered science. I suggest that this could and should have been different. Kitcher’s ideal should play a role in assessing the allocation of research resources in future crisis situations, as it provides a way to balance highly divergent interests and incorporate the common good into decision-making processes on research.

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