Knowledge and Politics: Reflections on Challenges to Open Science

This comment focuses on the contradictions inherent in current conceptualizations and practices associated with Open Science and highlighted by the preceding set of articles. Using Longino’s Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE), it argues that Open Science offers the potential for realization of the norms envisioned in CCE, but that the economic forces capitalizing on aspects of the call for Open Science and the current global context erode the capacity to realize the fourth norm of equality of intellectual authority. This is a matter of both justice and epistemic reliability.