Fischer, Enno
(2026)
Pursuitworthy Experiments: A Virtue-Economic Account.
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Abstract
It has been argued that pursuitworthy theories can be tracked by paying attention to certain theo-retical virtues such as potential explanatory power, scope, and simplicity. Here I employ that idea to provide an account of the pursuitworthiness of experiments. I argue that pursuitworthy experi-ments can be tracked by overarching epistemic and pragmatic virtues such as signal clarity, pre-cision, and experimental simplicity. Drawing from Peirce’s idea of an economy of research, I argue that some virtues promote pursuitworthiness by increasing an experiment’s epistemic gains, while others achieve this by decreasing the experiment’s costs.
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