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Fälle wissenschaftlichen Fehlverhaltens landen regelmäßig in den Medien und geben auch Außenstehenden einen Einblick in problematische Entwicklungen der Wissenschaft. Während Skandale ein Schlaglicht auf offensichtliches Fehlverhalten werfen, sind die Herausforderungen wissenschaftlicher Praxis weitaus komplexer. Die Autor*innen analysieren die Vielschichtigkeit und Verwobenheit von fragwürdigen Forschungspraktiken, Machtstrukturen und Fehlverhalten. Das Konzept der wissenschaftlichen Fairness dient dabei als Folie, bestehende Problematiken zu analysieren, und ist zugleich Gegenentwurf, der aufzeigt, welche Handlungsoptionen sich eröffnen.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Authorship. --- Challenge. --- Ethics. --- Fairness. --- Integrity. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Plagiarism. --- Practice. --- Research Data. --- Research Ethics. --- Science. --- Scientific Misconduct. --- Society. --- Sociology of Science. --- Sociology.

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This monograph contributes to the scientific misconduct debate from an oblique perspective, by analysing seven  novels devoted to this issue, namely: Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis (1925), The affair by C.P. Snow (1960), Cantor’s Dilemma by Carl Djerassi (1989), Perlmann’s Silence by Pascal Mercier (1995), Intuition by Allegra Goodman (2006),  Solar by Ian McEwan (2010) and Derailment by Diederik Stapel (2012). Scientific misconduct, i.e. fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, but also other questionable research practices, have become a  focus of concern for academic communities worldwide, but also for managers, funders and publishers of research. The aforementioned novels offer intriguing windows into integrity challenges emerging in contemporary research practices. They are analysed from a continental philosophical perspective,  providing a stage where various voices, positions and modes of discourse are mutually exposed to one another, so that they critically address and question one another. They force us to start from the admission that we do not really know what misconduct is. Subsequently, by providing case histories of misconduct, they address integrity challenges not only in terms of individual deviance but also in terms of systemic crisis, due to current transformations in the ways in which knowledge is produced. Rather than functioning as moral vignettes, the author argues that misconduct novels challenge us to reconsider some of the basic conceptual building blocks of integrity discourse.

Philosophy. --- Literature, Modern --- Ethics. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- 20th century. --- Psychology --- Psychology, Pathological --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Literature --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- scientific misconduct --- science novels --- Lacanian psychoanalysis --- research integrity --- plagiarism --- continental philosophy --- ethics --- falsification