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(2010) Epsa epistemology and methodology of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
In this paper I try to contribute to the discussion about incorruptible professional behavior in scientific research. For this purpose I take Merton's famous norms as a point of departure, not in order to note that scientists do not always conform to them, but to conceive them as "default-norms' by raising the question which deviations may be defensible and which ones are not. The emphasis will be on the norm of disinterestedness. I conclude with a brief discussion of the possibility and usefulness of subsuming all this in a general professional code for scientific researchers.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3263-8_13
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Kuipers, T. A. (2010)., The gray area for incorruptible scientific research, in M. Surez, M. Dorato & M. Rédei (eds.), Epsa epistemology and methodology of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 149-164.
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