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Deepanwita Dasgupta ¹, Alexander Levine ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Philosophy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN 37614, US
2 Department of Philosophy, FAO 226, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, US

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Deepanwita Dasgupta ¹, Alexander Levine ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Philosophy, FAO 226, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, US

Abstract

This article is a contribution to the problem of how a small peripheral scientific community enters in contact with another larger scientific group, first, in order to establish its own independent existence, but then also to found a new ongoing practice. Before such a new scientific community could be recognized as an independent contributing member however, it must go through some intermediate stages, and those stages could be illuminated by a philosophical analysis. This paper, a short research communication about our collaborative work on how to understand scientific practices outside the standard Western contexts, seeks to capture those intermediate stages in the form of a trading zone framework.

Keywords

Contributory Expertise, Peripheral Science, Trading Zone.

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