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urn:uuid:03408cdc-8ee5-40ea-a155-41786c904d74 03 01 01 urn:uuid:03408cdc-8ee5-40ea-a155-41786c904d74 15 9781805117841 06 10.11647/OBP.0507 00 EB E101 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Neomania How Our Obsession With Innovation is Failing Science, and How to Restore Trust 1 A01 Krist Vaesen 01 eng 00 198 03 93 PDA 04 Q175 20 Replication crisis 10 SCI075000 B2 Science 20 Innovation 93 JHB 10 SCI034000 B2 Science: History of Science 20 History, sociology and philosophy of science 93 PDX 10 PHI004000 B2 Philosophy 10 BUS108000 20 Open Science B2 Politics and Sociology 93 QDTK 93 KJMV6 20 Scientific coordination 93 JPP 01 06 03 00 <p>Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology—our collective obsession with innovation. This valorization of the new for its own sake has reshaped the scientific enterprise, privileging novelty over reliability and fragmentation over coordination.</p><p>Drawing on metascience as well as the philosophy and sociology of science, Neomania offers a critical analysis of how this ethos has permeated the norms and institutions of modern science. The book traces its historical emergence, diagnoses its systemic consequences, and articulates a reform agenda centered on coordination, shared research programs, and epistemic integrity—an agenda that goes well beyond the principles of Open Science.</p><p>Neomania advances a constructive vision for rebuilding science as a coherent and truth-oriented system. Combining philosophical depth with institutional analysis, it addresses students, scholars, policymakers, and practitioners concerned with the organization of knowledge production in an era of epistemic crisis. It is both a critique of contemporary scientific culture and a normative proposal for its renewal.</p> 04 00 List of illustrations List of tables Introduction PART I: THE DIAGNOSIS 1. Science in poly-crisis 2. Neomania as an explanation of the poly-crisis 3. Neomania: A short history of the obsession PART II: THE CURE 4. Open science: Necessary but not enough 5. Coordinating our way out of the poly-crisis 6. Towards a science organized around research programmes 7. Epilogue: AI, the crisis from without, and a personal confession Acknowledgements References Index 01 00 03 02 https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0507_frontcover.jpg Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 16 Eindhoven University of Technology Cambridge, UK 04 01 20260206 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805117810 06 15 9781805117827 06 15 9781805117834 06 15 9781805117858 06 15 9781805117841 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0507.epub 20 02 20260206 02 7.99 USD WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0507 20 02 20260206 02 7.99 USD WORLD