Kevin C Elliott,David B Resnik,Wendy Lipworth
Kevin C Elliott
Philosophical scholarship on science and values has gradually shifted away from asking whether values have any legitimate role to play in scientific judgment and decision-making and toward considering how to responsibly manage value influen...
Raphaël Authier
Raphaël Authier
This article raises the question of the meaning given by Buffon to the notion of history, through a reexamination of three aspects of a problem which has become traditional in a series of critical discussions: to what extent can Buffon's Hi...
On "minor" adverse effects: some misconceptions affecting the handling of epistemic risks in medical research [0.03%]
略论不良反应：医学研究中认识风险的一些误区
Ilvie Prince
Ilvie Prince
One of the main reasons for discontinuing hormonal contraceptives or switching to less effective methods is the experience of perceived side effects. Users are particularly bothered by symptoms that health professionals consider to be mild ...
Hume and the rotting turnip [0.03%]
霍布和腐烂的萝卜
Michael Jacovides
Michael Jacovides
Alessandra Basso,Anna Alexandrova
Alessandra Basso
We examine considerations that enter into design and evaluation of measures in social science, categorizing them into four drivers: epistemic, ethical, pragmatic, and metrological. We call them drivers to highlight their role in guiding res...
Matti Sarkia
Matti Sarkia
This paper discusses the status of consumer sentiment indicators in macroeconomic forecasting, and argues that economists have been ambivalent between several different interpretations of the cognitive ontology of consumer sentiment: deflat...
Katie H Morrow,Marie I Kaiser
Katie H Morrow
We explore the causes and outcomes of scientific conceptual change using a case study of the development of the individualized niche concept. We outline a framework for characterizing conceptual change that distinguishes between epistemical...
Yotam Harel
Yotam Harel
Franz Boas is widely regarded as a revolutionary anthropologist, maybe even the "founding grandfather" of modern anthropology. In this paper, I examine whether, besides his scientifically pioneering work in anthropology, Boas was also a pio...
How the cambrian exploded: Contingency in the history of science and life [0.03%]
寒武纪大爆发的原因：科学史和生命史中的偶然性
Max Dresow
Max Dresow
Few scientific terms are as colorful as the "Cambrian explosion": the name given to the rapid increase in animal diversity and abundance between about 540 and 520 million years ago. But for all its popularity, considerable uncertainty surro...