Editors’ Introduction: Science, Normativity and the Public

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank all the participants in the workshop for making it such a fruitful event. Steve Fuller contributed the most to organize it and he was the first to suggest the possibility of publishing this special issue. The authors cooperated in a way that deserves praise. Miranda del Corral kindly helped us in the preparation of the manuscripts for publication. Jeremy Howick and Julian Reiss provided useful comments. We should acknowledge the constant supporting contribution of the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation, and the funding received from the CSIC (Instituto de Filosofía), FECYT (Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología) and the Spanish Ministry of Education (grant SEJ2004–20076E). Another research grant on the emergence of scientific norms (HUM2005–01686/FISO) supported the authors’ research.

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David Teira Serrano

David Teira is Assistant Professor in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) and Research Associate of the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. His PhD thesis “Azar, economía y política en Milton Friedman” won the best dissertation award of the Spanish Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science in 2003.

Jesús Zamora Bonilla

Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla is Professor in the Department of Logic, History, and Philosophy of Science (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid) and academic co‐ordinator of the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. His research focuses on the economic analysis of scientific knowledge production. He has also worked on the problem of scientific realism and truth approximation. His papers have been published in Synthese, Philosophy of Science, Perspectives on Science and Episteme.