Critical Metascience
Mark Rubin, Ali Teymoori, Rose TrappesCritical metascience takes a step back to question some common assumptions, approaches, problems, and solutions in metascience.
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Professor at Durham University, UK\ud83d\udd38️metascience\ud83d\udd38️philosophy of science\ud83d\udd38️social psychology
I’m Ali Teymoori, a social psychologist at the University of Bergen, Norway. My research revolves around anomie, authoritarianism, identity, group processes, social theory, and metascientific topics.
Rose Trappes is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, Norway. Rose works in philosophy of biology and feminist philosophy of science. She's published on a range of topics in biology, ecology and behavioural sciences.
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