C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens and an elected member of the Academia Europaea and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He has taught at Freiburg, Stanford and Witten/Herdecke, was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He is the author of Wettbewersbstheorie (1994), Individuals, Institutions and Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), A Dialogue on Explanation (2018), A Dialogue on Institutions (2021) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

• Introduction; 1. The scaffolds humans erect on science; 2. Science and values; 3. Normativity; 4. The informal institutions of science; 5. Core scientific activities: explanation and interpretation; 6. The formal institutions of science; 7. The search for an adequate constitution; 8. Five principles for a quasi-autonomous science; Epilogue: The constitution of science is written in the heart of the scientists; Excursus: The value-free ideal for science; References.

In a time when disinformative challenges to the results of science are widespread, Chrys Mantzavinos offers this careful, wide-ranging, ambitious, multi-pronged investigation into the many necessary and perhaps sufficient conditions to foster healthy scientific inquiry. Normativity emerges as a key to the solution in a context where problem-solving is central, social interactions are essential activities, and diverse values must be respected. Free expression, critical discussion, open access are principles that allow discovery, justification and applications to take place in this innovative philosophical account.' James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus, Harvard University

C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens and an elected member of the Academia Europaea and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He has taught at Freiburg, Stanford and Witten/Herdecke, was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He is the author of Wettbewersbstheorie (1994), Individuals, Institutions and Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), A Dialogue on Explanation (2018), A Dialogue on Institutions (2021) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

• Introduction; 1. The scaffolds humans erect on science; 2. Science and values; 3. Normativity; 4. The informal institutions of science; 5. Core scientific activities: explanation and interpretation; 6. The formal institutions of science; 7. The search for an adequate constitution; 8. Five principles for a quasi-autonomous science; Epilogue: The constitution of science is written in the heart of the scientists; Excursus: The value-free ideal for science; References.

In a time when disinformative challenges to the results of science are widespread, Chrys Mantzavinos offers this careful, wide-ranging, ambitious, multi-pronged investigation into the many necessary and perhaps sufficient conditions to foster healthy scientific inquiry. Normativity emerges as a key to the solution in a context where problem-solving is central, social interactions are essential activities, and diverse values must be respected. Free expression, critical discussion, open access are principles that allow discovery, justification and applications to take place in this innovative philosophical account.' James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus, Harvard University

C. Mantzavinos is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Athens and an elected member of the Academia Europaea and the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences. He has taught at Freiburg, Stanford and Witten/Herdecke, was a senior fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn and held visiting appointments at Harvard, Princeton and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris. He is the author of Wettbewersbstheorie (1994), Individuals, Institutions and Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2001), Naturalistic Hermeneutics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Explanatory Pluralism (Cambridge University Press, 2016), A Dialogue on Explanation (2018), A Dialogue on Institutions (2021) and the editor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

• Introduction; 1. The scaffolds humans erect on science; 2. Science and values; 3. Normativity; 4. The informal institutions of science; 5. Core scientific activities: explanation and interpretation; 6. The formal institutions of science; 7. The search for an adequate constitution; 8. Five principles for a quasi-autonomous science; Epilogue: The constitution of science is written in the heart of the scientists; Excursus: The value-free ideal for science; References.

In a time when disinformative challenges to the results of science are widespread, Chrys Mantzavinos offers this careful, wide-ranging, ambitious, multi-pronged investigation into the many necessary and perhaps sufficient conditions to foster healthy scientific inquiry. Normativity emerges as a key to the solution in a context where problem-solving is central, social interactions are essential activities, and diverse values must be respected. Free expression, critical discussion, open access are principles that allow discovery, justification and applications to take place in this innovative philosophical account.' James Alt, Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government Emeritus, Harvard University