Does the production of scientific knowledge differ in certain important respects from the kinds of activity economics typicaly studies? If it does, the kinds of coordinating mechanisms at work in science that would allow us to see such activities as a Hayekian "order" might well differ from the...

The Philosophical study of social research is an important dimension of social science which has been placed to analyze the problems of social science description and its relationship. It describes the social phenomena within natural science as well as is concerned with the intellectual...

Scientific method theories and paradigms are some of the main questions explored in philosophy of science. Other issues that occupy the minds of scholars in this branch of philosophy include parameters for determining what qualifies as science, and the nature, purpose and reliability of science,...

"The political economy of research and innovation (R&I) is one of the central issues of the early twenty-first century. 'Science' and 'innovation' are increasingly tasked with driving and reshaping a troubled global economy while also tackling multiple, overlapping global challenges, such as...