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

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Abstract

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
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Khalifa, Kareem kkhalifa@middlebury.edu Goldberg, Sanford s-goldberg@northwestern.edu
Keywords:	measurement, social epistemology, coherentism, foundationalism
Subjects:	General Issues > Data General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science
Depositing User:	Prof 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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