The Tone Debate: Knowledge, Self, and Social Order

In the replication crisis in psychology, a “tone debate” has developed. It concerns question of how to conduct scientific debate effectively and ethically. How should scientists give critique without unnecessarily damaging relations? The increasing use Facebook Twitter by researchers made this issue especially pressing, as these social technologies have greatly expanded possibilities for conversation between academics, but there is little formal control over debate. article, we show that psychologists tried solve with various codes conduct, an appeal virtues such humility, practices self-transformation. We also polemical style debate, popular many communities, itself being questioned psychologists. Following Shapin Schaffer’s analysis ethics Robert Boyle’s experimental philosophy 17th century, trace connections knowledge, order, subjectivity they are debated revised present-day