Science as Theater: Too Obvious to Be Appreciated

Topoi 30 (2):165-171 (2011)
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Abstract

The analogy between science and theater work is so strict as to be normally taken for granted without the need of further specification. This implies that the analogy is completely ignored. Here I try to go in depth into the character of this analogy and to demonstrate how stopping and thinking about this issue could give some useful hints for solving problems that contemporary science is experiencing

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