Changes

Jump to navigation Jump to search
no edit summary
|Question=Can the epistemic stance of ''scientificity'' be taken towards ''methods''? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific methods?
|Topic Type=Descriptive
|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 taketowards 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
|Authors List=Ameer Sarwar, Patrick Fraser,
editor
245

edits

Navigation menu