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Scientific Progress Darrell P. Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Scientific Progress By Darrell P. Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

Summary

This Element extensively surveys the contemporary debate on answering the question of what constitutes cognitive scientific progress. It provides a critical summary of the key literature on the issue over the past fifteen years. It proposes an anti-realist answer to questions whose standards are ultimately subjective.

Scientific Progress Summary

Scientific Progress by Darrell P. Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)

What constitutes cognitive scientific progress? This Element begins with an extensive survey of the contemporary debate on how to answer this question. It provides a blow-by-blow critical summary of the key literature on the issue over the past fifteen years, covering the central positions and arguments therein. It also draws upon older literature, where appropriate, to inform the treatment. The Element then enters novel territory by considering meta-normative issues concerning scientific progress. It focuses on how the standards involved in assessing progress arise. Does science have aims, which determine what counts as progress, as many authors assume? If so, what is it to be an aim of science? And how does one identify such things? If not, how do normative standards arise? After arguing that science does not have overarching aims, the Element proposes that the standards are ultimately subjective.

Table of Contents

1. The contemporary debate on scientific progress: what constitutes cognitive progress?; 2. On second order cognitive goodness makers: the aim(s) of science; 3. Inventing cognitive progress: a subjectivist, quasi-error theoretic, view; References.

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NPB9781108714433
9781108714433
1108714439
Scientific Progress by Darrell P. Rowbottom (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
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Cambridge University Press
2023-10-12
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