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Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey Jan 2012

Pluralismo Metodológico, Incomensurabilidade E O Status Científico Do Conhecimento Tradicional, Hugh Lacey

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Cultural values may constructively have impact on scientific practices, and lead to legitimate culture-based variations in approaches to them. It follows that traditional or indigenous knowledge need not stand opposed to scientific knowledge, and only investigation on a case-by-case basis can establish whether or not the cognitive credentials of particular traditional knowledge claims are adequate or deficient. Building on an analysis of how different methodological strategies may both compete and complement one another, I argue that what is defensible about Thomas Kuhn's notion of incommensurability, and the possibility of the sound scientific status of traditional knowledge, have the same source. …


Reflections On Science And Technoscience, Hugh Lacey Jan 2012

Reflections On Science And Technoscience, Hugh Lacey

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Technoscientific research, a kind of scientific research conducted within the decontextualized approach (DA), uses advanced technology to produce instruments, experimental objects, and new objects and structures, that enable us to gain knowledge of states of affairs of novel domains, especially knowledge about new possibilities of what we can do and make, with the horizons of practical, industrial, medical or military innovation, and economic growth and competition, never far removed from view. The legitimacy of technoscientific innovations can be appraised only in the course of considering fully what sorts of objects technoscientific objects are: objects that embody scientific knowledge confirmed within …


G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2012

G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2012

Review Of "Assuming A Body: Transgender And Rhetorics Of Materiality" By G. Salamon, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Review Of "The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy And Poetry" By R. Barfield, Richard Thomas Eldridge Sep 2011

Review Of "The Ancient Quarrel Between Philosophy And Poetry" By R. Barfield, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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A Puzzle About Responsibility A Problem And Its Contextualist Solution, Peter Baumann Mar 2011

A Puzzle About Responsibility A Problem And Its Contextualist Solution, Peter Baumann

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This paper presents a puzzle about moral responsibility. The problem is based upon the indeterminacy of relevant reference classes as applied to action. After discussing and rejecting a very tempting response I propose moral contextualism instead, that is, the idea that the truth value of judgments of the form "S is morally responsible for x" depends on and varies with the context of the attributor who makes that judgment. Even if this reply should not do all the expected work it is a first step.


Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism, Peter Baumann Jan 2011

Empiricism, Stances, And The Problem Of Voluntarism, Peter Baumann

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Classical empiricism leads to notorious problems having to do with the (at least prima facie) lack of an acceptable empiricist justification of empiricism itself. Bas van Fraassen claims that his idea of the "empirical stance" can deal with such problems. I argue, however, that this view entails a very problematic form of voluntarism which comes with the threat of latent irrationality and normative inadequacy. However, there is also a certain element of truth in such a voluntarism. The main difficulty consists in finding an acceptable form of voluntarism.


Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, And Goethe's "Wandrers Nachtlied Ii", Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2011

Narrative Rehearsal, Expression, And Goethe's "Wandrers Nachtlied Ii", Richard Thomas Eldridge

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A Imparcialidade Da Ciência E As Responsabilidades Dos Cientistas, Hugh Lacey Jan 2011

A Imparcialidade Da Ciência E As Responsabilidades Dos Cientistas, Hugh Lacey

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This article, making use of a distinction between endorsing and accepting a claim, discusses the responsibilities that scientists incur in the light of the necessity to act, formulate policy, and to design regulations pertinent to technoscientific innovations, when decisions will inevitably be based, in important part, on claims that are only endorsed (and so implicated in compromises with ethical/social values), and not accepted in accordance with impartiality. Then, after introducing the notion of "impartial investigation", I conclude that the central responsibility of scientists is to engage in impartial investigation, and that this requires, not the exclusion of ethical and social …


Epistemic Closure, Peter Baumann Jan 2011

Epistemic Closure, Peter Baumann

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Stanley Cavell And Literary Studies: Consequences Of Skepticism, Richard Thomas Eldridge, B. Rhie Jan 2011

Stanley Cavell And Literary Studies: Consequences Of Skepticism, Richard Thomas Eldridge, B. Rhie

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Begrenzte Erkenntnisse?, Peter Baumann Jul 2010

Begrenzte Erkenntnisse?, Peter Baumann

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Plateau, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Plateau, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Lines Of Flight, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Lines Of Flight, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Phenomenology, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Phenomenology, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Simulation-Based Definitions Of Emergence, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Simulation-Based Definitions Of Emergence, Alan Richard Baker

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One approach to characterizing the elusive notion of emergence is to define that a property is emergent if and only if its presence can be derived but only by simulation. In this paper I investigate the pros and cons of this approach, focusing in particular on whether an appropriately distinct boundary can be drawn between simulation-based and non-simulation-based methods. I also examine the implications of this definition for the epistemological role of emergent properties in prediction and in explanation.


Complexity, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Complexity, Alan Richard Baker

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Ockham, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Ockham, Alan Richard Baker

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Incorporeal, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Incorporeal, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Food Crises And Global Warming: Critical Realism And The Need To Re-Institutionalize Science, Hugh Lacey, M. I. Lacey Jan 2010

Food Crises And Global Warming: Critical Realism And The Need To Re-Institutionalize Science, Hugh Lacey, M. I. Lacey

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Wittgenstein On Aspect-Seeing, The Nature Of Discursive Consciousness, And The Experience Of Agency, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2010

Wittgenstein On Aspect-Seeing, The Nature Of Discursive Consciousness, And The Experience Of Agency, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Smooth Space, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Smooth Space, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Majoritarian, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Majoritarian, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Oedipalisation, Tamsin E. Lorraine Jan 2010

Oedipalisation, Tamsin E. Lorraine

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Inference To The Best Explanation, Alan Richard Baker Jan 2010

Inference To The Best Explanation, Alan Richard Baker

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What Writers Do. The Value Of Literary Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge Dec 2009

What Writers Do. The Value Of Literary Imagination, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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Entrevista: Hugh Lacey, Revista, Hugh Lacey Nov 2009

Entrevista: Hugh Lacey, Revista, Hugh Lacey

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Hugh Lacey is Scheuer Family Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Senior Research at the Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania, U.S.A.), where he taught for thirty years, and researcher collaborator in the thematic project: "Gênese e significado da tecnociência: relações entre ciência, tecnologia e sociedade", USP/FAPESP. Between 1969 and 1971 he was a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo and ever since he has developed an intense interaction with Brazilian Universities and Research Institutes, with many others visits. Some of his main research interests are: the interplay between facts and values, the relevance of the development of …


O Lugar Da Ciência No Mundo Dos Valores E Da Experiência Humana, Hugh Lacey Oct 2009

O Lugar Da Ciência No Mundo Dos Valores E Da Experiência Humana, Hugh Lacey

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Was Moore A Moorean? On Moore And Scepticism, Peter Baumann Jun 2009

Was Moore A Moorean? On Moore And Scepticism, Peter Baumann

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Review Of "Art And Ethical Criticism" Edited By G. L. Hagberg, Richard Thomas Eldridge Jan 2009

Review Of "Art And Ethical Criticism" Edited By G. L. Hagberg, Richard Thomas Eldridge

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