@inbook{31ea0467efe14957866807d98fbd5daf,
title = "Perovskite philosophy: a branch-formation model of application-oriented science",
abstract = "In this paper, I present a model of application-oriented science, to supplement existing work in science and technology studies on the re-orientation of scientific research. On this “branch-formation” model, research efforts may be guided by non-epistemic values without compromising their epistemic value: they may involve completion of mechanism representations that serve control over these mechanisms while also adding to our understanding of them. I illustrate this model with a case study from photovoltaic technology, involving the possible use of materials with the so-called {\textquoteleft}perovskite{\textquoteright} structure in dye-sensitized solar cells. The paper has three parts. The first argues how existing work on the increasing application-orientedness of scientific research can and must be supplemented with a perspective from the philosophy of science. The second presents the branch-formation model, which combines central ideas of the {\textquoteleft}finalization-of-science{\textquoteright} program of the Starnberg school with recent work in {\textquoteleft}mechanistic{\textquoteright} philosophy of science and in the philosophy of technology. The third part illustrates the branch-formation model with current developments in research on perovskite solar cells.",
keywords = "Basic and applied research, Mechanism, Mode 2 knowledge, triple helix",
author = "W.N. Houkes",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-33717-3_12",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-33716-6",
series = "Philosophy of Engineering and Technology",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "195--218",
editor = "M. Franssen and P.E. Vermaas and P. Kroes and A.W.M. Meijers",
booktitle = "Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn",
address = "Germany",
}