Peer review and knowledge by testimony in mathematics

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • B. Löwe
  • T. Müller
Book title PhiMSAMP: philosophy of mathematics: sociological aspects and mathematical practice
ISBN
  • 9781904987956
Series Texts in philosophy, 11
Pages (from-to) 155-178
Number of pages 384
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract The peer review process has been the topic of many studies in the medical sciences, but not so in mathematics. Given that mathematicians refer to results from the literature without checking the proofs in detail, it is interesting to see how the mathematical refereeing process affects the epistemic certainty of this type of mathematical knowledge by testimony. We give a description of the mathematical refereeing process and some results of empirical studies.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at http://www.lib.uni-bonn.de/PhiMSAMP/Data/Book/PhiMSAMP-bk_GeistLoeweVanKerkhove.pdf
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