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|Question=Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''methods''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods? | |Question=Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''methods''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods? | ||
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| − | |Description=Sarwar and Fraser have argued that an independent stance, called ''scientificity'', can be taken towards ''theories'', namely that epistemic agents can consider a given theory as scientific or unscientific independent of any other stances an agent may take.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]] The question, then, arises whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards methods. Do they regard certain methods as scientific but do not employ them? Are some methods further developed by epistemic agents even though these methods are not, at the time of development, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards methods is an important topic of scientonomic inquiry. | + | |Description=Sarwar and Fraser have argued that an independent stance, called ''scientificity'', can be taken towards ''theories'', namely that epistemic agents can consider a given theory as scientific or unscientific independent of any other stances an agent may take towards it.[[CiteRef::Sarwar and Fraser (2018)]] The question, then, arises whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards methods. Do they regard certain methods as scientific but do not employ them? Are some methods further developed by epistemic agents even though these methods are not, at the time of development, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards methods is an important topic of scientonomic inquiry. |
|Parent Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Methods | |Parent Topic=Epistemic Stances Towards Methods | ||
|Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser, | |Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser, | ||
Latest revision as of 05:48, 3 March 2019
Can the epistemic stance of scientificity be taken towards methods? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods?
Sarwar and Fraser have argued that an independent stance, called scientificity, can be taken towards theories, namely that epistemic agents can consider a given theory as scientific or unscientific independent of any other stances an agent may take towards it.1 The question, then, arises whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards methods. Do they regard certain methods as scientific but do not employ them? Are some methods further developed by epistemic agents even though these methods are not, at the time of development, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards methods is an important topic of scientonomic inquiry.
In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Patrick Fraser and Ameer Sarwar in 2018.
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References
- ^ Sarwar, Ameer and Fraser, Patrick. (2018) Scientificity and The Law of Theory Demarcation. Scientonomy 2, 55-66. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/31275.
