A Critical Examination of the New Sociology of Science Part 2

Bunge, Mario

doi:10.1177/004839319202200103

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“…However, in contrast to such a relativist position, we [17] agree with other authors [34,37,[40][41][42][43] holding the view that factual sciences, understood as research fields producing genuine knowledge [37], can be clearly distinguished from other non-scientific forms of recognition. However, we grant that factual science cannot be defined on the basis of a single feature or on the basis of a single and universal demarcation criterion like Karl Raimund Poppers widely quoted attribute of falsifiability [44,45].…”

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“…In this way, the two extreme positions of ''every scientific activity is only a social construct'' (context determines contents) and ''there are no social factors whatsoever influencing scientific activity and findings'' (contents without context) are avoided. Thus, the position presented here is a way in the middle between a radical externalism and an internalism defined too narrowly [40][41][42].…”

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Molecularization in nutritional science: A view from philosophy of science

Schmeißer

Döring

2010

Molecular Nutrition Food Res

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Methodologically, molecular nutrition research is bound to a microreductive research approach. We emphasize, however, that it need not be a radical microreductionism whose scientific reputation is not the best. Instead we favor moderate microreductionism, which combines reduction with integration. As mechanismic explanations are one of the primary aims of factual sciences, we consider it as the task of molecular nutrition research to find profound, i.e. molecular-mechanismic, explanations for the conditions, characteristics and changes of organisms related to the organism-nutrition environment interaction.

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Molecularization in nutritional science: A view from philosophy of science

Schmeißer

Döring

2010

Molecular Nutrition Food Res

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“…They would claim to make sense of the scientists' practices without any reference to the objectives or purposes that scientists have when conducting their experiments. The strong program has by now been discredited [14], but it illustrates excesses to which a strictly phenomenological attitude can lead.…”

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Why I am not a QBist

Marchildon¹

2015

Found Phys

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Quantum Bayesianism, or QBism, is a recent development of the epistemic view of quantum states, according to which the state vector represents knowledge about a quantum system, rather than the true state of the system. QBism explicitly adopts the subjective view of probability, wherein probability assignments express an agent's personal degrees of belief about an event. QBists claim that most if not all conceptual problems of quantum mechanics vanish if we simply take a proper epistemic and probabilistic perspective. Although this judgement is largely subjective and logically consistent, I explain why I do not share it.

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“…For a detailed incursion into PC and postmodernism and hypotheses on its intellectual ancestors, see [56]. For the ideological takeover of social science by frameworks developed by critical theory and postmodernism, see [57][58][59]. An introductory exposition of the origin and content of social liberalism as the hybridization of classical liberalism with socialist thought can be found in [60].…”

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“…There exists greater elbow room for objectivity in Longino's argument for "states of affairs, hypothesis and background beliefs are independently specifiable" [160] (pp. [56][57]. Also, background beliefs strike as being primarily pretheoretical, non-articulated by default.…”

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The Unreasonable Destructiveness of Political Correctness in Philosophy

Doria¹

2017

Philosophies

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I submit that epistemic progress in key areas of contemporary academic philosophy has been compromised by politically correct ("PC") ideology. First, guided by an evolutionary account of ideology, results from social and cognitive psychology and formal philosophical methods, I expose evidence for political bias in contemporary Western academia and sketch a formalization for the contents of beliefs from the PC worldview taken to be of core importance, the theory of social oppression and the thesis of anthropological mental egalitarianism. Then, aided by discussions from contemporary epistemology on epistemic values, I model the problem of epistemic appraisal using the frameworks of multi-objective optimization theory and multi-criteria decision analysis and apply it to politically correct philosophy. I conclude that philosophy guided by politically correct values is bound to produce constructs that are less truth-conducive and that spurious values which are ideologically motivated should be abandoned. Objections to my framework stemming from contextual empiricism, the feminine voice in ethics and political philosophy are considered. I conclude by prescribing the epistemic value of empirical adequacy, the contextual value of political diversity and the moral virtue of moral courage to reverse unwarranted trends in academic philosophy due to PC ideology.

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A Critical Examination of the New Sociology of Science Part 2

Cited by 37 publications

References 24 publications

Molecularization in nutritional science: A view from philosophy of science

Molecularization in nutritional science: A view from philosophy of science

Why I am not a QBist

The Unreasonable Destructiveness of Political Correctness in Philosophy

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