Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry in a Social Context: An Introduction

Dunja Šešelja; Christian Straßer; Anne Marie Borg

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Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry in a Social Context: An Introduction

Dunja Šešelja (Corresponding author), Christian Straßer (Corresponding author), Anne Marie Borg

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Abstract

Formal models of scientific inquiry, aimed at capturing socio-epistemic aspects underlying the process of scientific research, have become an important method in formal social epistemology and philosophy of science. In this introduction to the special issue we provide a historical overview of the development of formal models of this kind and analyze their methodological contributions to discussions in philosophy of science. In particular, we show that their significance consists in different forms of ‘methodological iteration’ (Elliott 2012) whereby the models initiate new lines of inquiry, isolate and clarify problems with existing knowledge claims, and stimulate further research.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	211-217
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume	51
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-020-09502-w
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020

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The research for this article and the preparation of the special issue was supported by a Sofja Kovalevskaja award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research, as well as by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 426833574.

Funders	Funder number
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	426833574
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung

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