Leonelli Sabina
Exeter Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences & Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter,
Philos Sci. 2015 Dec 1;82(5):810-821. doi: 10.1086/684083.
This paper proposes an account of scientific data that makes sense of recent debates on data-driven research, while also building on the history of data production and use particularly within biology. In this view, 'data' is a relational category applied to research outputs that are taken, at specific moments of inquiry, to provide evidence for knowledge claims of interest to the researchers involved. They do not have truth-value in and of themselves, nor can they be seen as straightforward representations of given phenomena. Rather, they are fungible objects defined by their portability and their prospective usefulness as evidence.
本文提出了一种关于科学数据的解释，这种解释既能理解近期关于数据驱动研究的争论，又能基于数据生产和使用的历史，特别是生物学领域的数据生产和使用历史。按照这种观点，“数据”是一个关系范畴，适用于在特定探究时刻被视为能为相关研究人员感兴趣的知识主张提供证据的研究成果。数据本身没有真值，也不能被视为给定现象的直接表征。相反，它们是由其可移植性及其作为证据的预期有用性所定义的可替代对象。
