Heresy and Honor. A Historical Perspective on Trust in Science

Johannes Lenhard ()
Additional contact information
Johannes Lenhard: RPTU Kaiserslautern, Department of Social Sciences and Laboratory of Engineering Thermodynamics

A chapter in The Science and Art of Simulation, 2024, pp 29-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the discourse on trust from a historical and philosophical perspective. When and under what conditions did it arise? What are the salient features that drive this discourse? The argument revolves around the observation that trust is an ambivalent concept that can mean both honor for and heresy against science. It will be argued that the discourse on trust in science is relatively recent but has (some) historical roots. Four factors are identified that act on different time scales and that together contribute to the recent discourse on trust.

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-68058-8_2

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031680588

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-68058-8_2

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().