Empirical evidence in conceptual engineering, or the defense of 'predictive understanding'
Wiktor Rorot,
Marcin Miłkowski
Abstract:The advent of digital philosophy of science—the practice of employing large textual datasets together with text mining and natural language processing tools for asking questions in philosophy of science—has dramatically shifted philosophers’ ability to account for the scientific practice, without relying on small and often arbitrary samples of the literature. The methodological issues that come with this novel approach have been traditionally discussed around the necessary choice between using these methods fo… Show more
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