List of Open Questions
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Here all the open questions accepted by the community:
| Topic | Topic Type | Question | Formulated Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 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 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 |
| Definition | Definitional | What is definition? How should it be defined? | 2018 |
| 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 |
| 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 Community | Descriptive | Does a community exist? | 2016 |
| Existence of Definition | Descriptive | Does a definition exist? | 2018 |
| Existence of Descriptive Theory | Descriptive | Does a descriptive theory exist? | 2015 |
| 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 Individual Epistemic Agent | Descriptive | Does an individual epistemic agent exist? | 2019 |
| Existence of Logical Presupposition | Descriptive | Does a logical presupposition exist? | 2021 |
| Existence of Normative Theory | Descriptive | Does a normative theory exist? | 2015 |
| Existence of Question | Descriptive | Does a question exist? | 2018 |
| Existence of Question Acceptance | Descriptive | Does question acceptance exist? | 2018 |
| Existence of Theory | Descriptive | Does a theory exist? | 2015 |
| Existence of Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | Does theory acceptance 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 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 Theory Acceptance | Descriptive | How do theories become accepted into a mosaic? | 2015 |
| Mechanism of Theory Rejection | Descriptive | How do theories become rejected? What is the mechanism of theory rejection? | 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? | 2015 |
| 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 |
| Substantive Method | Definitional | What is substantive method? How should it be defined? | 2015 |
| 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 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 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 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 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 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 |
