Dellsén, Finnur and Norton, James (2024) Dejustifying Scientific Progress. [Preprint]
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Stegenga (forthcoming) formulates and defends a novel account of scientific progress, according to which science makes progress just in case there is a change in scientific justification. Here we present several problems for Stegenga’s account, concerning respectively (i) obtaining misleading evidence, (ii) losses or destruction of evidence, (iii) oscillations in scientific justification, and (iv) the possibility of scientific regress. We conclude by sketching a substantially different justification-based account of scientific progress that avoids these problems.
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| Additional Information: | Forthcoming in Philosophy of Science | |||||||||
| Keywords: | scientific progress; misleading evidence; scientific regress; scientific justification | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Finnur Dellsén | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2024 15:01 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Jun 2024 15:01 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 23522 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Evidence General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | 2024 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23522 |
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