Ohnesorge, Miguel (2022) The Epistemic Privilege of Measurement: Motivating a Functionalist Account. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Philosophers and metrologists have refuted the view that measurement’s epistemic privilege in scientific practice is explained by its theory-neutrality. Rather, they now explicitly appeal to the role that theories play in measurement. I formulate a challenge for this view: scientists sometimes ascribe epistemic privilege to measurements even if they lack a shared theory about their target quantity, which I illustrate through a case study from early geodesy. Drawing on that case, I argue that the epistemic privilege of measurement precedes shared background theory and is better explained by its pre-theoretic function in enabling a distinctive kind of inquiry.
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| Keywords: | Measurement, Epistemology of Measurement, Geodesy, History of Physics, Philosophy of Physics, Philosophy of Geoscience | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Earth Sciences General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Depositing User: | Mr Miguel Ohnesorge | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2022 18:07 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2022 18:07 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 20879 | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics Specific Sciences > Earth Sciences General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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| Date: | 2022 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20879 |
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