Scientificity of Questions
Can the epistemic stance of scientificity be taken towards questions? Can there be unscientific or pseudoscientific questions?
Scientific mosaics consist of theories, methods, and questions.123 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 to be scientific or unscientific independent of the agent's other stances of acceptance, use, and pursuit towards the same theory.4 The question, likewise, can be asked whether epistemic agents can take the stance of scientificity towards questions. Do they regard certain questions as scientific but do not pursue them? Are some questions explored by epistemic agenst even though they are not, at the time of exploration, considered scientific? Whether or not, and if so, how, the stance of scientificity is taken towards questions is an important scientonomic topic of inquiry, because they form an integral part of the scientific mosaic.
In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Patrick Fraser and Ameer Sarwar in 2018.
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References
- ^ Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.
- ^ Sebastien, Zoe. (2016) The Status of Normative Propositions in the Theory of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 1, 1-9. Retrieved from https://www.scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/26947.
- ^ Rawleigh, William. (2018) The Status of Questions in the Ontology of Scientific Change. Scientonomy 2, 1-12. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/29651.
- ^ 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.