Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science

Soler, Léna; Zwart, Sjoerd D.; Lynch, Michael; Israël-Jost, Vincent

doi:10.4324/9781315857985

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“…Philosophers of science who call for abandoning normative perspectives on science (e.g., Soler et al , 15) typically direct their criticism towards a very specific kind of metanormativity. They criticize philosophers who adopt a privileged viewpoint outside science and tell the practicing scientists what good science really is and how science is properly done.…”

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Normativity in the Philosophy of Science

Kaiser

2019

Metaphilosophy

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This paper analyzes what it means for philosophy of science to be normative. It argues that normativity is a multifaceted phenomenon rather than a general feature that a philosophical theory either has or lacks. It analyzes the normativity of philosophy of science by articulating three ways in which a philosophical theory can be normative. Methodological normativity arises from normative assumptions that philosophers make when they select, interpret, evaluate, and mutually adjust relevant empirical information, on which they base their philosophical theories. Object normativity emerges from the fact that the object of philosophical theorizing can itself be normative, such as when philosophers discuss epistemic norms in science. Metanormativity arises from the kind of claims that a philosophical theory contains, such as normative claims about science as it should be. Distinguishing these three kinds of normativity gives rise to a nuanced and illuminating view of how philosophy of science can be normative.

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confidence: 99%

“…These normative ideals were typically formulated ex cathedra and are thus criticized for being disconnected from and peripheral to the empirical reality of scientific practice. Accordingly, Soler and colleagues characterize the practice turn as a “shift from normative to descriptive perspectives on science” (, 15).…”

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Normativity in the Philosophy of Science

Kaiser

2019

Metaphilosophy

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“…Diese pragmatische, im Kern auf Zusammenarbeit setzende Denk-und Sichtweise (Sennett 2012) würde den Einbezug des Wissens 259 So weisen auch Cornwall und Coelho vor allem auf inkrementelle, also eher unscheinbare Veränderungsprozesse hin: "The normative expectations of deliberative and participatory democracy find weak support in the findings of the studies of everyday experiences of participatory governance in this book . Max Weber sprach hier bereits von einer "Wirklichkeitswissenschaft", seit Jahren wird zwar ein "practice turn" betont (Soler 2014), abgesehen von Bürgern betonen ("Citizen Science", Finke/Laszlo vgl . Their very ordinariness tells other stories: of incremental change, of a growing sense of entitlement to participate, of slow but real shifts in political agency .…”

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Bürgerenergie in Deutschland

Radtke

2016

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Weltweite Verteilungskämpfe um knappe Energieressourcen und der Klimawandel mit seinen Auswirkungen führen zu globalen, nationalen, regionalen und auch lokalen Herausforderungen, die Gegenstand dieser Publikationsreihe sind. Die Beiträge der Reihe sollen Chancen und Hemmnisse einer präventiv orientierten Energie-und Klimapolitik vor dem Hintergrund komplexer energiepolitischer und wirtschaftlicher Interessenlagen und Machtverhältnisse ausloten. Themenschwerpunkte sind die Analyse der europäischen und internationalen Liberalisierung der Energiesektoren und -branchen, die internationale Politik zum Schutz des Klimas, Anpassungsmaßnahmen an den Klimawandel in den Entwicklungs-, Schwellenund Industrieländern, die Produktion von biogenen Treibstoffen zur Substitution fossiler Energieträger oder die Probleme der Atomenergie und deren nuklearen Hinterlassenschaften.Die Reihe bietet empirisch angeleiteten, quantitativen und international vergleichenden Arbeiten, Untersuchungen von grenzüberschreitenden Transformationsund Mehrebenenprozessen oder von nationalen "best practice"-Beispielen ebenso ein Forum wie theoriegeleiteten, qualitativen Untersuchungen, die sich mit den grundlegenden Fragen des gesellschaftlichen Wandels in der Energiepolitik und beim Klimaschutz beschäftigen.

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“…While philosophers of science before the 1980s were predominantly concerned with theories as final products of science, Ian Hacking, Nancy Cartwright and others began to promote a new focus on scientific practice (see Soler et al 2014). This led to a visible rise in philosophical studies of experimental practices (Guala 2005), the material dimension of science (Ankeny and Leonelli 2016), classificatory activities in scientific practice (Kendig 2016) and data-handling processes in the life sciences (Leonelli 2016).…”

Section: (Iii) the New Complexitymentioning

confidence: 99%