Please, no/yes answers (The more I get, the better). Anysoul who would like to comment on more - is most welcome!
Grant applications and reports to granting agencies often require a bit of creative fiction. Truthfulness isn't always a sustainable value. One can have values without manifesting them in all contexts. My nuanced answer is yes and no.
For me very much so as what the general public certainly believes is true, for example believing what institutions tell us, is not and i feel academics need to make others aware of these discrepancies. Holding that for practical, intellectual purposes there is a Truth, no matter how faint or yellowed it is, suffices.
No, unfortunately it is not - the criterion of truth for the majority of researchers, at least in humanities, is the conformity.
Hello! My PhD. thesis was about truth in science. Truth have always been the purpose for all the scientists if they can be called so. So, your question contains the answer itself.
Hello Artyom, thank You for sharing Your standpoint! I will try to get to Your PhD thesis. However truth in science as an epistemic ideal and truthfulness of scientists can differ. Unfortunately.
Excuse me, Dr. Dziurosz-Serafinowicz! Misunderstanding on my side! I guess it's an ethical problem then. But anyway, here's my Abstract of the Ph.D. thesis:
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