Difference between revisions of "Scope of Scientonomy - Construction and Appraisal"

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|Description=Theory construction is the creative process by which theories are formulated by their creators. Theory appraisal is the process by which a scientific community determines which theories are suitable for acceptance into its mosaic. Questions of theory construction have been seen as primarily a matter for empirical disciplines like history, psychology, and sociology. Whereas the process of theory appraisal has also interested philosophers of science. It must be determined which of these questions scientonomy ought to make its main focus.
 
 
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|Prehistory=In the early twentieth century [https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reichenbach/ Hans Reichenbach] explicitly distinguished between the '''context of discovery''', and the '''context of justification'''. The first dealt with the temporal process by which new theories are discovered, invented, or constructed, and the second with the logical enterprise of appraising, testing, and securing them. [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 22]]
 
 
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Revision as of 15:03, 19 June 2017

Ought the process of scientific change be viewed from the perspective of theory construction or that of theory appraisal?

In the scientonomic context, this question was first formulated by Hakob Barseghyan in 2015. The question is currently accepted as a legitimate topic for discussion by Scientonomy community.

In Scientonomy, the accepted answer to the question is:

  • Scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any such instance of scientific change is a result of appraisal, which is a decision of the community to accept a proposed modification to the mosaic. Scientonomy must provide an account of this appraisal process. A theory of scientific change is not required to account for the process of theory construction.

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Acceptance Record

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Scientonomy1 January 2016The community has accepted its first answer to this question, the Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015), which indicates that the question is itself considered legitimate. pp. 21-30Yes

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Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015)Scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any such instance of scientific change is a result of appraisal, which is a decision of the community to accept a proposed modification to the mosaic. Scientonomy must provide an account of this appraisal process. A theory of scientific change is not required to account for the process of theory construction.2015

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ScientonomyScope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015)1 January 2016

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Current View

In Scientonomy, the accepted answer to the question is Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015).

Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015) states: "Scientonomy should describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any such instance of scientific change is a result of appraisal, which is a decision of the community to accept a proposed modification to the mosaic. Scientonomy must provide an account of this appraisal process. A theory of scientific change is not required to account for the process of theory construction."

The goal of scientonomy is to give a descriptive account of the process of scientific change. Given this goal, it is obvious that it must describe and explain how changes in the mosaic of accepted scientific theories and employed methods take place. Any actual instance of scientific change is the result of an appraisal. Therefore, a theory of scientific change must provide an account of how theories are actually appraised and thereby explain how changes in the mosaic occur. On the other hand, it can but is not required to account for the process of theory construction.1p. 29

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References

  1. ^  Barseghyan, Hakob. (2015) The Laws of Scientific Change. Springer.

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