Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society
Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism. Regardless of scientific realism, and given the reliance of today's scientific methods on IBE, this criticism poses a...
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University of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen Languages
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| description | Having offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism. Regardless of scientific realism, and given the reliance of today's scientific methods on IBE, this criticism poses a deeper threat to the validity of scientific enquiry. In this article, we will try to provide a way to deal with this threat, according to the structure of the scientific community. Some structural features of the contemporary scientific community have caused the scientific enquiry to be limited to the science derived from the Western tradition and deprived it of the theoretical opportunities of various traditions. The main claim of this article is that paying attention to different traditions together to produce science is a good way to expand scientific enquiry and deal with the mentioned threat. In the first section, we will depict how the argument from bad lot threatens the validity of scientific enquiry. In the second section, we discuss the close relationship between science and tradition, and then examine the status of this relationship in the contemporary scientific society. The final section is devoted to proposing the idea of pluralism regarding the use of the theoretical opportunities of different traditions in scientific enquiry, as a proposed solution to counter this threat. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aae2fd84e7ba454793c4d1394a2ab5db2023-09-03T07:12:37ZengUniversity of Tabriz, Faculty of Literature and Forigen LanguagesJournal of Philosophical Investigations2251-79602423-44192021-12-01153724227010.22034/jpiut.2022.49754.310014216Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific SocietyAmir Motesharei0Mostafa Taqavi1M.A. in Philosophy of Science Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.Assistant Professor, Philosophy of Science Department, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranHaving offered the “argument from bad lot”, Bas van Fraassen has raised an important criticism on the Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) and challenged scientific realism. Regardless of scientific realism, and given the reliance of today's scientific methods on IBE, this criticism poses a deeper threat to the validity of scientific enquiry. In this article, we will try to provide a way to deal with this threat, according to the structure of the scientific community. Some structural features of the contemporary scientific community have caused the scientific enquiry to be limited to the science derived from the Western tradition and deprived it of the theoretical opportunities of various traditions. The main claim of this article is that paying attention to different traditions together to produce science is a good way to expand scientific enquiry and deal with the mentioned threat. In the first section, we will depict how the argument from bad lot threatens the validity of scientific enquiry. In the second section, we discuss the close relationship between science and tradition, and then examine the status of this relationship in the contemporary scientific society. The final section is devoted to proposing the idea of pluralism regarding the use of the theoretical opportunities of different traditions in scientific enquiry, as a proposed solution to counter this threat.https://philosophy.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_14216_4edbab25b2c8e27c257f259d3e315559.pdfinference to the best explanationnon-western traditionsscientific monopolyscientific pluralism |
| spellingShingle | Amir Motesharei Mostafa Taqavi Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society Journal of Philosophical Investigations inference to the best explanation non-western traditions scientific monopoly scientific pluralism |
| title | Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society |
| title_full | Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society |
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| title_short | Science and Tradition: Towards a Pluralistic Scientific Society |
| title_sort | science and tradition towards a pluralistic scientific society |
| topic | inference to the best explanation non-western traditions scientific monopoly scientific pluralism |
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