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Latest revision as of 14:41, 24 March 2017
Here all the open questions accepted by the community:
Topic | Topic Type | Question | Formulated Year |
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Acceptance Criteria | Definitional | What is acceptance criteria? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Accidental Group | Definitional | What is accidental group? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Assessment of Scientonomy - Relevant Facts | Normative | What classes of facts ought we to take into account when assessing a scientonomic theory? | 2015 |
Associations of Acceptance Criteria | Descriptive | How is the class of acceptance criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between acceptance criterias, as well as between an acceptance criteria and instances of other classes? | 2015 |
Associations of Community | Descriptive | How is the class of community associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between communities, as well as between a community and instances of other classes? | 2016 |
Associations of Compatibility Criteria | Descriptive | How is the class of compatibility criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between compatibility criterias, as well as between a compatibility criteria and instances of other classes? | 2015 |
Associations of Demarcation Criteria | Descriptive | How is the class of demarcation criteria associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between demarcation criterias, as well as between a demarcation criteria and instances of other classes? | 2015 |
Associations of Method | Descriptive | How is the class of method associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between methods, as well as between a method and instances of other classes? | 2015 |
Associations of Question | Descriptive | How is the class of question associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between questions, as well as between a question and instances of other classes? | 2018 |
Associations of Theory | Descriptive | How is the class of theory associated with other classes (and itself)? What aggregation, composition, or other association relations can exist between theories, as well as between a theory and instances of other classes? | 2015 |
Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Changeability of the Scientific Mosaic | Descriptive | Under what circumstances does scientific change become impossible? | 2015 |
Community | Definitional | What is community? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Compatibility | Definitional | What is compatibility? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Compatibility Criteria | Definitional | What is compatibility criteria? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Compatibility of Mosaic Elements | Descriptive | Are all elements within a mosaic compatible with one another? | 2018 |
Core Question | Definitional | What is core question? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Core Theory | Definitional | What is core theory? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Definition | Definitional | What is definition? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Delineating Theory | Definitional | What is delineating theory? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Demarcation Criteria | Definitional | What is demarcation criteria? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Descriptive Theory | Definitional | What is descriptive theory? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Determinism vs. Underdeterminism in Scientific Change | Descriptive | Is the process of scientific change a strictly deterministic process? Will two unconnected communities experience a similar historical series of changes in their individual mosaics? | 2015 |
Discipline | Definitional | What is discipline? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Discipline Acceptance | Definitional | What is discipline acceptance? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Epistemic Agent | Definitional | What is epistemic agent? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Epistemic Presupposition | Definitional | What is epistemic presupposition? How should it be defined? | 2019 |
Epistemic Stances Towards Epistemic Elements | Descriptive | What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards epistemic elements? | 2015 |
Epistemic Stances Towards Normative Theories | Descriptive | What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards normative theories? | 2016 |
Epistemic Stances Towards Questions | Descriptive | What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards questions? | 2018 |
Epistemic Stances Towards Theories | Descriptive | What types of epistemic stances can be taken by epistemic agents towards theories? | 2015 |
Error | Definitional | What is error? How should it be defined? | 2019 |
Existence of Acceptance Criteria | Descriptive | Does acceptance criteria exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Authority Delegation | Descriptive | Does authority delegation exist? | 2016 |
Existence of Community | Descriptive | Does a community exist? | 2016 |
Existence of Compatibility Criteria | Descriptive | Does a compatibility criteria exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Core Question | Descriptive | Does a core question exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Core Theory | Descriptive | Does a core theory exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Definition | Descriptive | Does a definition exist? | 2018 |
Existence of Delineating Theory | Descriptive | Does a delineating theory exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Demarcation Criteria | Descriptive | Does a demarcation criteria exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Descriptive Theory | Descriptive | Does a descriptive theory exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Discipline | Descriptive | Does a discipline exist? | 2016 |
Existence of Discipline Acceptance | Descriptive | Does discipline acceptance exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Epistemic Agent | Descriptive | Does an epistemic agent exist? | 2018 |
Existence of Epistemic Community | Descriptive | Does an epistemic community exist? | 2016 |
Existence of Epistemic Element | Descriptive | Does an epistemic element exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Epistemic Presupposition | Descriptive | Does an epistemic presupposition exist? | 2019 |
Existence of Epistemic Stance | Descriptive | Does an epistemic stance exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Descriptive | Does hierarchical authority delegation exist? | 2017 |
Existence of Individual Epistemic Agent | Descriptive | Does an individual epistemic agent exist? | 2019 |
Existence of Logical Presupposition | Descriptive | Does a logical presupposition exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Multiple Authority Delegation | Descriptive | Does multiple authority delegation exist? | 2017 |
Existence of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Descriptive | Does non-hierarchical authority delegation exist? | 2017 |
Existence of Normative Theory | Descriptive | Does a normative theory exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Procedural Method | Descriptive | Does a procedural method exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Question | Descriptive | Does a question exist? | 2018 |
Existence of Question Acceptance | Descriptive | Does question acceptance exist? | 2018 |
Existence of Singular Authority Delegation | Descriptive | Does singular authority delegation exist? | 2017 |
Existence of Subdiscipline | Descriptive | Does a subdiscipline exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Subquestion | Descriptive | Does a subquestion exist? | 2021 |
Existence of Substantive Method | Descriptive | Does a substantive method exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Theory | Descriptive | Does a theory exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | Does theory acceptance exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Theory Pursuit | Descriptive | Does theory pursuit exist? | 2015 |
Existence of Theory Use | Descriptive | Does theory use exist? | 2015 |
Explicable-Implicit | Definitional | What is explicable-implicit knowledge? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Explicit | Definitional | What is explicit knowledge? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Group | Definitional | What is group? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is hierarchical authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2017 |
History of Scientific Change | Definitional | What is history of scientific change? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Implicit | Definitional | What is implicit knowledge? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Indicators of Method Employment | Normative | What kind of historical markers could be taken as indicators that a method was employed by an agent at a given time? | 2015 |
Indicators of Theory Acceptance | Normative | What types of historical markers can be taken as indicative that a theory was accepted by an agent at a given time? | 2015 |
Individual Level | Definitional | What is individual level? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Inexplicable | Definitional | What is inexplicable knowledge? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Logical Presupposition | Definitional | What is logical presupposition? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Mechanism of Compatibility | Descriptive | Under what conditions can two elements coexist in the same mosaic? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Error Rejection | Descriptive | When epistemic agent discover that a theory was accepted erroneously, they often reject the theory; the theory rejection theorem suggests that those propositions are replaced by something. What are they replaced by? | 2018 |
Mechanism of Method Employment | Descriptive | How do methods become employed by an epistemic agent? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Method Rejection | Descriptive | When does an employed method become rejected? | 2016 |
Mechanism of Mosaic Split | Descriptive | What happens to a mosaic when two or more similar theories are considered equally acceptable by a scientific community? Under what conditions does a mosaic split occur? What happens to a mosaic when it is transformed into two or more mosaics? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Norm Employment | Descriptive | How do norms become employed by an epistemic agent? | 2022 |
Mechanism of Question Acceptance | Descriptive | How do questions become accepted as legitimate topics of inquiry? What is the mechanism of question acceptance? | 2018 |
Mechanism of Question Rejection | Descriptive | How do questions become rejected? What is the mechanism of question rejection? | 2021 |
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Epistemic Elements | Descriptive | What makes the epistemic elements of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Methods | Descriptive | What makes the methods of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Scientific Inertia for Theories | Descriptive | What makes the theories of an agent's mosaic continue to remain in the mosaic? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | How do theories become accepted into a mosaic? | 2015 |
Mechanism of Theory Rejection | Descriptive | 2015 | |
Method | Definitional | What is method? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Methodology | Definitional | What is methodology? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Mosaic Merge | Definitional | What is mosaic merge? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Mosaic Split | Definitional | What is mosaic split? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Multiple Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is multiple authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2017 |
Mutual Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is mutual authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Nature of Appraisal | Descriptive | 2015 | |
Necessary Methods | Descriptive | Are there methods that are necessarily part of any mosaic? What methods, if any, are necessary for the process of scientific change to occur? | 2015 |
Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is non-hierarchical authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2017 |
Norm Employment | Definitional | What is norm employment? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Normative Theory | Definitional | What is normative theory? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
One-sided Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is one-sided authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Outcome Inconclusive | Definitional | How should the theory assessment outcome inconclusive be defined? | 2015 |
Outcome Not Satisfied | Definitional | How should the theory assessment outcome not satisfied be defined? | 2017 |
Outcome Satisfied | Definitional | How should the theory assessment outcome satisfied be defined? | 2017 |
Possibility of Scientonomy | Descriptive | How is scientonomy possible? | 2015 |
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Bad Track Record | Descriptive | How is scientonomy possible given the bad track record of previous attempts to create a general theory of scientific change? | 2015 |
Possibility of Scientonomy - Argument from Changeability of Scientific Method | Descriptive | How can there be scientonomy if the methods of science are changeable? | 2015 |
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Nothing Permanent | Descriptive | How can scientonomy be possible if there are no permanent features of science? | 2015 |
Possibility of Scientonomy - The Argument from Social Construction | Descriptive | How is scientonomy possible if science is a social construction? | 2015 |
Procedural Method | Definitional | What is procedural method? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Pursuit as Acceptance | Descriptive | Is the category of theory pursuit really distinct from that of theory acceptance? | 2018 |
Question | Definitional | What is question? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
Question Acceptance | Definitional | What does it mean to say that a question is accepted? How should question acceptance be defined? | 2018 |
Role of Methodology in Scientific Change | Descriptive | What role do methodologies play in scientific change? Are methodologies capable of affecting employed methods? | 2015 |
Role of Sociocultural Factors in Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | What is the role of sociocultural factors, such as economics or politics, in the process of theory acceptance? | 2015 |
Scientific Change | Definitional | What is scientific change? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Scientific Mosaic | Definitional | What is scientific mosaic? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Scientonomic Workflow | Normative | How should changes in the accepted body of scientonomic knowledge be introduced? What are the steps and procedures of the scientonomic workflow? | 2016 |
Scientonomy | Definitional | What is scientonomy? How should it be defined? | 2016 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Acceptance Use and Pursuit | Normative | How ought a scientonomic theory deal with the various stances that a community might take towards a theory? Which stances towards a theory ought a scientonomic theory account for? | 2015 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal | Normative | Ought the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of theory construction or that of theory appraisal? | 2015 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Descriptive and Normative | Normative | Ought a scientonomic theory be descriptive or normative? | 2015 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Explicit and Implicit | Normative | Ought a scientonomic theory account for only changes to explicit elements of the mosaic or must it also deal with changes in implicit elements that are not openly stated? | 2015 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social | Normative | Ought a scientonomic theory account for changes in the mosaics of individual scientists, the mosaics of communities, or both? | 2015 |
Scope of Scientonomy - Time Fields and Scale | Normative | For changes in the mosaic of what time period ought a scientonomic theory account? For changes in which fields of inquiry ought it to account? Ought it deal only in grand changes, or should it account for minor changes as well? | 2015 |
Singular Authority Delegation | Definitional | What is singular authority delegation? How should it be defined? | 2017 |
Social Level | Definitional | What is social level? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Static vs. Dynamic Methods | Descriptive | Are there any methods which are immune to change? | 2015 |
Status of Technological Knowledge | Descriptive | What is the status of technological knowledge in the scientific mosaic? Can technological knowledge be accepted into a mosaic? | 2015 |
Subdiscipline | Definitional | What is subdiscipline? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Subquestion | Definitional | What is subquestion? How should it be defined? | 2021 |
Substantive Method | Definitional | What is substantive method? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Subtypes of Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of authority delegation? | 2016 |
Subtypes of Epistemic Agent | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of an epistemic agent? | 2018 |
Subtypes of Epistemic Element | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of an epistemic element? | 2015 |
Subtypes of Epistemic Stance | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of an epistemic stance? | 2015 |
Subtypes of Method | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of a method? | 2015 |
Subtypes of Multiple Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of multiple authority delegation? | 2017 |
Subtypes of Normative Theory | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of a normative theory? | 2015 |
Subtypes of Theory | Descriptive | What are the subtypes of a theory? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Compatibility | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of compatibility? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Definition | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a definition? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Descriptive Theory | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a descriptive theory? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Epistemic Community | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of an epistemic community? | 2016 |
Supertypes of Explicit | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of an explicit? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of hierarchical authority delegation? | 2017 |
Supertypes of Implicit | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of an implicit? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Individual Epistemic Agent | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of an individual epistemic agent? | 2019 |
Supertypes of Method | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a method? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Multiple Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of multiple authority delegation? | 2017 |
Supertypes of Non-Hierarchical Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of non-hierarchical authority delegation? | 2017 |
Supertypes of Norm Employment | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of norm employment? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Normative Theory | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a normative theory? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Procedural Method | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a procedural method? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Question | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a question? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Question Acceptance | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of question acceptance? | 2018 |
Supertypes of Singular Authority Delegation | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of singular authority delegation? | 2017 |
Supertypes of Substantive Method | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a substantive method? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Theory | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a theory? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of theory acceptance? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Theory Pursuit | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of a theory pursuit? | 2015 |
Supertypes of Theory Use | Descriptive | What are the supertypes of theory use? | 2015 |
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Employment | Descriptive | Which factors influence the process of method employment? Do new methods become accepted simultaneously with the acceptance of a theory? | 2015 |
Synchronism vs. Asynchronism of Method Rejection | Descriptive | When a method is rejected, must it be the case that a theory has also been rejected? | 2015 |
Tautological Status of The Law of Compatibility (Fraser-Sarwar-2018) | Descriptive | Is the law of compatibility suggested by Fraser and Sarwar in 2018 a tautology? | 2018 |
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Barseghyan-2015) | Descriptive | Is Barseghyan's original second law a tautology? | 2013 |
Tautological Status of The Second Law (Patton-Overgaard-Barseghyan-2017) | Descriptive | Is the second law suggested by Patton, Overgaard, and Barseghyan in 2017 a tautology? | 2017 |
Tautological Status of The Zeroth Law (Harder-2015) | Descriptive | Is Harder's zeroth law a tautology? | 2016 |
The Paradox of Normative Propositions | Descriptive | If methodologies are themselves theories that can be accepted by a community, then how can methods be deductive consequences of accepted theories, given that historically employed methods and accepted methodologies have often been inconsistent with one another? | 2014 |
Theory | Definitional | What is theory? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
Theory Acceptance | Definitional | What does it mean to say that a theory is accepted? How should theory acceptance be defined? | 2015 |
Theory Assessment Outcomes | Descriptive | What outcomes can possibly obtain as a result of an assessment of a theory by a method? What is the complete list of theory assessment outcomes? | 2015 |
Theory Pursuit | Definitional | What does it mean to say that a theory is pursued? How should theory pursuit be defined? | 2015 |
Theory Use | Definitional | What does it mean to say that a theory is used? How should theory use be defined? | 2015 |
Workflow - Goals of Peer Review | Normative | Should peer reviewers evaluate a submitted paper for the pursuitworthiness or acceptability of the content of the paper? | 2019 |
Workflow - Handling Ripple Effects | Normative | 2019 | |
Workflow - Publishing Modification Comments | Normative | Should the discussions concerning a suggested modification be published? If so, when and how should they be published? | 2019 |
Workflow - Reformulating Suggesting Modifications | Normative | Are the commentators of suggested modifications allowed to suggest reformulations of the original formulations? | 2019 |
References
- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.