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                  McAllister, J.W.                
                                
                  (2018)                
              
	
                  
                                                            Scientists’ Reuse of Old Empirical Data: Epistemological Aspects                  

              
	
                Article / Letter to editor              
	
                This article investigates epistemological aspects of scientists’ reuse of empirical data over decades and centuries. Giving examples, I discuss three respects in which empirical data are historical entities and the implications for the notion of data reuse. First, any data reuse necessitates metadata, which specify the data’s circumstances of origin. Second, interpretation of historical data often requires the tools of humanities disciplines, which produce a further historicization of data. Finally, some qualitative social scientists hold that data are personal to the researcher who coconstructs them in the research process and are therefore skeptical about the prospects of reusing data.              

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                                                                                                          	Date
	2018-12-01


                       
                                                            	Journal
	
                    Philosophy of Science                  


                                           
                                                              	Volume
	85


                                                                                    	Issue
	5


                                                                                	Pages
	
                    755–766                                                          


                                                                                                                                	DOI
	
                                          doi:10.1086/699695                                      


                                                        
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

      
    



    

  

  

                                        

 




        
 
       

    
          
    
  

            
    
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