Questions about the role of replicability in science are becoming more and more urgent for two different reasons. Firstly, the replicability crisis has led sociologists to demand more accurate controls over the replicability of measurements, and, in this regard, the action taken by funding agencies to stop the proliferation of unrepeatable and nonreplicable measurements is certainly welcome. Secondly, the emphasis on the replicability of measurements as a necessary and non-negotiable value for science can prompt the discarding of very important scientific findings—on climate change, on medicine, on the science of recycling—and may prompt their dismissal as unscientific and unreliable. For the sake of replicability, for instance, most if not all the science of climate change could be rejected as unscientific.

Given the huge impact that the problem of replicability is having on society and given that this topic bridges across different scientific cultures, as all scientific disciplines are based on measurement, the impact of this project is difficult to overestimate. Moreover, the repeatability and replicability of measurements is a foundational concept of science, rendering the project particularly important for the philosophy community.

This project is aimed at philosophers and scientists, but thanks to its interdisciplinary and cutting-edge topic, its dissemination will target a wider audience including scientists, professional science journalists and science writers.