FESS–FCLS-FHESS-FERP RESEARCH NOTE 29 — SCIENTIFIC NEUTRALITY AND SCIENTIFIC SOLIDARITY: The Epistemic Constitution of CO-INDIVIDUATIONₒ

FESS–FHESS–FCLS RESEARCH NOTE 29 SCIENTIFIC NEUTRALITY AND SCIENTIFIC SOLIDARITY: The Epistemic Constitution of CO-INDIVIDUATIONₒ Abstract This research note introduces SCIENTIFIC NEUTRALITY as the epistemic point of departure of SCIENTIFIC SOLIDARITY within the FHESS–FESS–FCLS research framework. Scientific neutrality is examined as the independent epistemic position from which researchers and research institutions exercise their capacities for observation, conceptual development, critical examination and scientific judgment. Scientific solidarity develops through the reciprocal participation of differentiated epistemic positions in a shared field of inquiry. Each participating institution contributes its particular disciplinary competence while preserving and developing its independent scientific identity. The research introduces CO-INDIVIDUATIONₒ as the constitutive development of this relationship: the simultaneous development of differentiated scientific capacities and their common field of investigation. Particular attention is given to the structural relationship between scientific neutrality, institutional independence and JUDICIAL SOLIDARITY, including the INNERVATING CORNERSTONE FUNCTION of the International Criminal Court as an independent judicial third instance within the Rome Statute framework. The note further examines PROSPECTIVE SCIENTIFIC AND JUDICIAL CARE as the timely development of epistemic, institutional and judicial capacities for independent discernment, critical evaluation, lawful defence and legal protection. An emerging empirical field consists of twenty academic outreach communications addressed to sixteen universities and university-level research institutions and four independent research institutes. These communications constitute documented invitations to independent scientific examination. Subsequent institutional responses and collaborative developments can be investigated as separately observable events. Research Note 29 thereby establishes a conceptual and empirical basis for studying the epistemic constitution of scientific solidarity and its relationship to the institutional and judicial ecosystems developed in FHESS–FESS–FCLS COMMUNICATION XIX-B. Central Research Proposition Scientific neutrality constitutes the epistemic point of departure of scientific solidarity. Scientific solidarity develops through the reciprocal participation of independent epistemic positions in a shared constitutive field of inquiry. Related Research FHESS–FESS–FCLS COMMUNICATION XIX-B, submitted to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on 27 October 2026. Public research dossier: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23353845 ANNEX L provides the preceding doctrinal development from which RESEARCH NOTE 29 emerged. The research note develops SCIENTIFIC NEUTRALITY as the epistemic point of departure of SCIENTIFIC SOLIDARITY and examines their constitutive relationship through CO-INDIVIDUATIONₒ. Author: Guido UlensAffiliation: Independent Researcher — FHESS–FESS–FCLS Research Programme