Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)

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This is a definition of Discipline Acceptance that states "A discipline is said to be accepted by an epistemic agent if that agent accepts the core questions specified in the discipline’s delineating theory as well as the delineating theory itself."

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This definition of Discipline Acceptance was formulated by Paul Patton and Cyrus Al-Zayadi in 2021.1

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Modification Community Date Suggested Summary Verdict Verdict Rationale Date Assessed
Sciento-2021-0006 Scientonomy 1 August 2021 Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance. Open

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Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is discipline acceptance? How should it be defined?

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Description

Disciplines like biology, physics, and astrology can be the subject of the epistemic stances of epistemic agents. For example, biology and physics are accepted by the scientific community of the modern world as disciplines, but astrology is rejected. In this definition, discipline acceptance is taken to be derivative of theory acceptance and question acceptance. A discipline is defined by a delineating theory, which identifies its core questions. For example, the question 'how do matter and energy behave?' is a core question of modern physics, and the question 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' is a core question of astrology. To accept a discipline, an epistemic agent must accept both the delineating theory that identifies a set of core questions constituting a discipline, and must accept those core questions themselves. The scientific community of the modern world accepts both the delineating theory that classifies 'how do matter and energy behave?' as a core question of physics, and accepts the question itself. The scientific community accepts the delineating theory that identifies 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' as a core question of astrology, but they do not accept the question itself, because they reject its supposition that there is such an influence. Thus, they reject the discipline of astrology.

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References

  1. ^  Patton, Paul and Al-Zayadi, Cyrus. (2021) Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology. Scientonomy 4, 59-85. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/37123.