Monograph

In The New Sociology of Science, Boris Kriger delivers a direct challenge to the institutional foundations of modern science. The book argues that truth alone has never been enough — and is not even decisive. What determines whether an idea becomes science is not its correctness, but its ability to pass through fragile, often distorted social channels of persistence.

Reinterpreting Auguste Comte, Kriger overturns the classical view: sociology is not the highest science — it is the hidden condition without which no science exists at all.

From this follows a disturbing conclusion. A mind capable of transforming physics, biology, or cosmology — if cut off from institutional transmission — leaves no more trace than silence. This book develops that conclusion into a formal framework. It introduces the Social Indistinguishability Theorem, exposing a structural blind spot at the core of scientific self-understanding: the system cannot detect what it fails to transmit.

Across philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and contemporary epistemology, Kriger maps the breakdown of the classical scientific order. Journals, peer review, and academic gatekeeping are revealed not as guarantors of truth, but as historically contingent mechanisms — now increasingly outpaced by algorithmic systems and direct communication channels.

The result is not a critique from the margins. It is a structural diagnosis of a system entering transition. Science is changing. The question is not whether it will adapt — but whether it will recognize what it has already become.