So... Who Is Your Audience?

So... Who Is Your Audience?
Philip Kitcher, 2018/08/07
Note: 20 page MS-Word document. I've long considered Philip Kitcher's The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge to be required reading for those in the field, and more recently he has done work in the domain of science and society. So this question directly concerns him. And me. There are really two parts to his answer. One is practical: "The need to present scientific issues clearly to people who are not scientists seems to me the most crucial task of all (and perhaps it is especially important to reach journalists and policymakers)," he writes. The other is methodological. More...