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T1 Pragmatic Norms in Science. Making Them Explicit
A1 Caamaño Alegre, María de la Concepción
AB The present work constitutes an attempt to make explicit those pragmaticnorms successfully operating in empirical science. I will first comment on the initialpresuppositions of the discussion, in particular, on those concerning the instrumentalcharacter of scientific practice and the nature of scientific goals. Then I will depictthe moderately naturalistic frame in which, from this approach, the pragmatic normsmake sense. Third, I will focus on the specificity of the pragmatic norms, makingspecial emphasis on what I regard as a key idea underlying them, namely, the view,vigorously advocated by classical pragmatists like C. S. Peirce and G. Vailati, thatthe best test for objectivity is the test of action. Finally, I am going to put forward atentative list of pragmatic norms that can be abstracted from a careful observation andanalysis of scientific practice as provided by current philosophers of experimentation(A. Franklin and F. Steinle among others). The norms will be divided into four classescorresponding to four aspects of science in which they rule, that is, self-correction,prediction, explanation and both experimentation and computation. In the followingaccount, the formulation of those pragmatic norms successfully governing sciencewill be understood as a contribution that scientifically-oriented pragmatism can maketo the normative naturalistic project in epistemology.
PB Springer
YR 2013
FD 2013
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22789
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/22789
LA eng
NO Synthese, 190, 15,  3227-3246
DS UVaDOC
RD 23-nov-2024