The research plan will consist in four work packages. Its time line runs over three years.

First year:

Work Package 1.

Conceptual clarifications of the terms ‘repeatability’, ‘replicability’ and ‘reproducibility’.

Work package 2.

Repeatability and replicability as foundational values in science.

Research outputs: The work carried out in the first year will produce two papers: 1. Repeatable but not replicable? How this can be (im)possible. 2. The replication crisis and some clarifications on the necessary conditions for a measurement to be scientific.

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Second year:

Work package 3.

The role of metaphysics in understanding replicability and reproducibility.

Research outputs: The work carried out in the second year will produce two papers: 1. A metaphysical approach to the problem of replicability. 2. Replicability or Reproducibility? Should Metaphysics matter?

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Third year:

Work package 4.

The role of mathematics in the concept of repeatability and replicability.

Research outputs: The work carried out in the third year will produce three papers: 1. The trivalent role of mathematics in repeatability and replicability; 2. What non-repeatability in quantum mechanics teaches us on the role of mathematics. 3. If mathematics hinders scientific progress.