Rice, Collin and Khalifa, Kareem (2025) Thank You for Misunderstanding! [Preprint]
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This paper examines cases in which an individual’s misunderstanding improves the scientific community’s understanding via “corrective” processes that produce understanding from poor epistemic inputs. To highlight the unique features of valuable misunderstandings and corrective processes, we contrast them with other social-epistemological phenomena including testimonial understanding, collective understanding, Longino’s critical contextual empiricism, and knowledge from falsehoods.
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| Keywords: | understanding, misunderstanding, social epistemology of science, testimony, collective, Longino | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Prof Kareem Khalifa | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2025 13:10 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 04 Mar 2025 13:10 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 24865 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Explanation General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Date: | 2025 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24865 |
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