Nickles, Thomas (2019) The crowbar model of method and its implications. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34 (3). pp. 357-372. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
There is a rough, long-term tradeoff between rate of innovation and degree of strong realism in scientific practice, a point reflected in historically changing conceptions of method as they retreat from epistemological foundationism to a highly fallibilistic, modeling perspective. The successively more liberal, innovation-stimulating methods open up to investigation deep theoretical domains at the cost, in many cases, of moving away from strong realism as a likely outcome of research. The crowbar model of method highlights this tension, expressed as the crowbar compromise and the crowbar fallacy. The tools-to-theories heuristic, described and evaluated by Gigerenzer and colleagues, can be regarded as an attempt by some scientific realists to overcome this compromise. Instead, it is an instance of it. Nonetheless, in successful applications the crowbar model implies a modest, instrumental (nonrepresentational) realism.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | crowbar, method, scientific innovation, heuristics, models, the tools-to-theories heuristic, scientific realism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Technology General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2019 00:26 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2019 00:26 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16706 | ||||||
| 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.19070 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Technology General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | March 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 357-372 | ||||||
| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16706 |
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