Dellsén, Finnur (2025) Scientific Progress: Normative, but Aimless. [Preprint]

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Does science have any aim(s)? If not, does it follow that the debate about scientific progress is somehow misguided or problematically non-objective? These are two of the central questions posed in Rowbottom’s Scientific Progress. In this paper, I argue that we should answer both questions in the negative. Science probably has no aims, certainly not a single aim; but it does not follow from this that the debate about scientific progress is somehow misguided or problematically non-objective.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Dellsén, Finnur fud@hi.is 0000-0003-4989-4204
Subjects:	General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Values In Science
Depositing User:	Dr. Finnur Dellsén
Date Deposited:	06 Mar 2025 13:25
Last Modified:	06 Mar 2025 13:25
Item ID:	24869
Journal or Publication Title:	Asian Journal of Philosophy
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1007/s44204-025-00264-0
Subjects:	General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Values In Science
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/24869

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