Sturm, Thomas (2019) Scientific innovation: A conceptual explication and a dilemma. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34 (3). pp. 321-341. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
I offer an analysis of the concept of scientific innovation. When research is innovated, highly noveland usefulelements of investigation begin to spread through a scientific community, resulting from a process which is neither due to blind chance nor to necessity, but to a minimal use of rationality. This, however, leads to tension between two claims: (1) scientific innovation can be explained rationally; (2) no existing account of rationality explains scientific innovation. There are good reasons to maintain (1) and (2), but it is difficult for both claims to be accepted simultaneously by a rational subject.In particular, I argue that neither standard nor bounded theories of rationality can deliver a satisfactory explanation of scientific innovations.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | Scientific innovation, rationality, heuristics, models of scientific change, science policy | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2019 00:23 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2019 00:23 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16704 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.20652 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Science and Policy General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | September 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 321-341 | ||||||
| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16704 |
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