TY - JOUR
T1 - Epistemic Divergence and the Publicity of Scientific Methods
AU - Piccinini, Gualtiero
N1 - Epistemic divergence occurs when different investigators give different answers to the same question using evidence-collecting methods that are not public. Without following the principle that scientific methods must be public, scientific communities risk epistemic divergence. I explicate the notion of public method and argue that, to avoid the risk of epistemic divergence, scientific communities should (and do) apply only methods that are public.
Gualtiero Piccinini, Epistemic divergence and the publicity of scientific methods, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, Volume 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 597-612, ISSN 0039-3681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0039-3681(03)00049-9.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368103000499)
Keywords: Epistemic divergence; Public method; Intersubjective test; Reliabilism; Method of possible cases
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - Epistemic divergence occurs when different investigators give different answers to the same question using evidence-collecting methods that are not public. Without following the principle that scientific methods must be public, scientific communities risk epistemic divergence. I explicate the notion of public method and argue that, to avoid the risk of epistemic divergence, scientific communities should (and do) apply only methods that are public.
AB - Epistemic divergence occurs when different investigators give different answers to the same question using evidence-collecting methods that are not public. Without following the principle that scientific methods must be public, scientific communities risk epistemic divergence. I explicate the notion of public method and argue that, to avoid the risk of epistemic divergence, scientific communities should (and do) apply only methods that are public.
KW - Epistemic Divergence
KW - Intersubjective Test
KW - Method of Possible Cases
KW - Public Method
KW - Reliabilism
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368103000499
U2 - 10.1016/S0039-3681(03)00049-9
DO - 10.1016/S0039-3681(03)00049-9
M3 - Article
VL - 34
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
ER -