Citizen Science - Science as a Vocation

Authors

  • Evgeny Maslanov Interregional Non-Governmental Organization «Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science»
  • Anton V. Dolmatov Interregional Non-Governmental Organization «Russian Society for History and Philosophy of Science»

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956345

Keywords:

technoscience, citizen science, science as a profession, science as a vocation, higher education

Abstract

The author analyzes contemporary technoscience. He claims that for the functioning of technoscience it is necessary to train a large number of specialists with higher education. Not all of them are employed in scientific and research organizations. Some of the people who have a higher education but are not professionally engaged in science, participate in the implementation of various citizen science projects. As a result, two groups of scientists can be distinguished: professional scientists and amateur scientists. For the former, scientific activity is a profession, whereas for the citizen scientists it can rather be described in terms of satisfying their curiosity.

Published

2020-01-03

Issue

Vol. 56 No. 3 (2019): Epistemology & Philosophy of Science

Section

Panel Discussion

How to Cite

[1]
2020. Citizen Science - Science as a Vocation. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science. 56, 3 (Jan. 2020), 40–44. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201956345.