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Socio-Functional Foundations In Science: The Case Of Measurement

Khalifa, Kareem and Goldberg, Sanford (2023) Socio-Functional Foundations In Science: The Case Of Measurement. [Preprint]

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We present a novel kind of “socio-functional” foundationalism rooted in the division of scientific labor. Our foundationalism is social in that it involves a socio-epistemic phenomenon we dub epistemic outsourcing, whereby claims from one group of scientists provide epistemological foundations for another group of scientists. We argue that: (1) epistemic outsourcing results in a legitimate form of epistemic foundationalism, (2) this sort of foundationalism can be used to shed light on the epistemology of measurement; and (3) epistemic outsourcing is a distinctively collective epistemic phenomenon.


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Item Type: Preprint
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Khalifa, Kareemkkhalifa@middlebury.edu
Goldberg, Sanfords-goldberg@northwestern.edu
Keywords: measurement, social epistemology, coherentism, foundationalism
Subjects: General Issues > Data
General Issues > Evidence
General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Depositing User: Dr. Kareem Khalifa
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2022 14:12
Last Modified: 27 Oct 2022 14:12
Item ID: 21320
Official URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/phis.1...
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.1111/phis.12218
Subjects: General Issues > Data
General Issues > Evidence
General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Date: 2023
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21320

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