Withstanding tensions: scientific disagreement and epistemic tolerance

Christian Straßer, Dunja Šešelja, Jan Willem Wieland

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Samenvatting

Many philosophers of science consider scientific disagreement to be a major promoter of scientific progress. However, we lack an account of the epistemically and heuristically appropriate response scientists should have towards opposing positions in peer disagreements. Even though some scientific pluralists have advocated a notion of tolerance, the implications of this notion for one’s epistemic stance and, more generally, for the scientific practice have been insufficiently explicated in the literature. In this paper we explicate a characteristic tension in which disagreeing scientists are situated and on this basis we propose a notion of epistemic tolerance.
Originele taal-2Engels
TitelHeuristic Reasoning
RedacteurenEmiliano Ippoliti
UitgeverijSpringer
Pagina's113-146
Aantal pagina's34
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 2015
Extern gepubliceerdJa

Publicatie series

NaamStudies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
UitgeverijSpringer

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