Crețu, Ana-Maria (2021) Perspectival Instruments. [Preprint]

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Despite its potential implications for the objectivity of scientific knowledge, the claim that ‘scientific instruments are perspectival’ has received little critical attention. I show that this claim is best understood as highlighting the dependence of instruments on different perspectives. When closely analysed, instead of constituting a novel epistemic challenge, this dependence can be exploited to mount novel strategies for resolving two old epistemic problems: conceptual relativism and theory ladeness. The novel content of this paper consists in articulating and developing these strategies by introducing two fine-grained notions of perspectives as the key units of analysis: ‘broad perspectives’ and ‘narrow perspectives’

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Crețu, Ana-Maria d.cretuanamaria@gmail.com
Keywords:	scientific instruments, objectivity, perspectivism,theory-ladeness, conceptual relativism
Subjects:	General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Ana-Maria Cretu
Date Deposited:	25 Apr 2021 03:58
Last Modified:	25 Apr 2021 03:59
Item ID:	18949
Subjects:	General Issues > Experimentation General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science
Date:	April 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18949

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