Introduction: systematicity, the nature of science?

Bschir, Karim; Lohse, Simon; Chang, Haṡok

doi:10.1007/s11229-018-1685-z

Cited by 7 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 34 publications

(23 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Alignment is a crucial point of discussion in science studies, for instance in the context of work resulting from "practice turn" (Bschir et al, 2019;Soler et al, 2017). In philosophy of science, the analysis of processes of alignment for scientific change is relatively recent and has often been the result of going beyond theory-centred models of change and focusing on other components as forces of change, for instance in work on collaborative research (Ankeny & Leonelli, 2020).…”

Section: Alignment: Establishing Changementioning

confidence: 99%

A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence

Canali

2022

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

I propose an approach that expands philosophical views of scientific change, on the basis of an analysis of contemporary biomedical research and recent developments in the philosophy of scientific change. Focusing on the establishment of the exposome in epidemiology as a case study and the role of data as a context for contrasting views on change, I discuss change at conceptual, methodological, material, and social levels of biomedical epistemology. Available models of change provide key resources to discuss this type of change, but I present the need for an approach that models transfer, alignment, and influence as key processes of change. I develop this as a pragmatic approach to scientific change, where processes might change substantially depending on specific circumstances, thus contributing to and complementing the debate on a crucial epistemological issue.

show abstract

Section: Alignment: Establishing Changementioning

confidence: 99%

A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence

Canali

2022

Euro Jnl Phil Sci

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…How science knows what reality is like is a matter that modern philosophy of science now has a much better handle on (e.g. Chakravartty, 2007;Bschir et al, 2019) compared to the old empiricist assumptions still all too widely held in the scientific community-and in continental philosophers' caricature of science as reductive 'scientism'. Non-sensory processes are also at play in science, such as logic and reasoning, assessing ideas as to their degrees of plausibility, reliability, robustness and coherence with other ideas (as summarised in Rose & Brown, 2015, § §3-4).…”

Section: Orcid Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

George Orwell, objectivity, and the reality behind illusions

Rose

2022

Perception

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Illusions are commonly defined as departures of our percepts from the veridical representation of objective, common-sense reality. However, it has been claimed recently that this definition lacks validity, for example, on the grounds that external reality cannot possibly be represented truly by our sensory systems, and indeed may even be a fiction. Here, I first demonstrate how novelist George Orwell warned that such denials of objective reality are dangerous mistakes, in that they can lead to the suppression and even the atrophy of independent thought and critical evaluation. Second, anti-realists assume their opponents hold a fully reductionist metaphysics, in which fundamental physics describes the only ground truth, thereby placing it beyond direct human sensory observation. In contrast, I point to a more recent and commonly used alternative, non-reductive metaphysics. This ascribes real existence to many levels of dynamic systems of information, emerging progressively from the subatomic to the biological, psychological, social, and ecological. Within such a worldview the notion of objective reality is valid, it comes in part within the range of our senses, and thus a definition of illusions as kinds of deviations from veridical perception becomes possible again.

show abstract

“…Within the last four centuries the pre-eminent worldview has become Scientific Realism. The reasons for this include not only its "awesome explanatory power" (Prinz, 2012, p. 9) and its empirical and predictive success (giving concrete validity to its constructs), but also its insistence on logical consistency and plausibility, its critical and detailed analytic methodology, its self-correcting ability, systematicity, comprehensiveness, and so on (Rose & Brown, 2015, p. 429;Bschir et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Reality Of Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

Rose¹

2021

Preprint

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

What is it that appears to us: an objective reality or a subjective illusion? A brief history of the continental philosophical approach to this question is given, followed by an introduction to the recent continental movement toward Realism, which accepts there must be mind-independent entities of some kind. Yet if such an objective reality exists this raises the problem of how we can possibly conceptualise what exists and happens there, since by definition it is beyond our concepts — or at least beyond our current ones. Hence it seems mysterious, weird and wonderful. I illustrate how the arts and sciences have independently approached this question, and suggest some commonalities in their conclusions. Finally, I discuss the importance of individual differences in how we perceive and think.

show abstract

Introduction: systematicity, the nature of science?

Cited by 7 publications

References 34 publications

A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence

A pragmatic approach to scientific change: transfer, alignment, influence

George Orwell, objectivity, and the reality behind illusions

Perceiving the weird and the wonderful. The mysterious metaphysics of phenomenology, art and science.

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About