Statistical significance and its critics: practicing damaging science, or damaging scientific practice? [0.03%]
统计显著性及其批评者：在破坏科学还是在防止不良的科学实践？
Deborah G Mayo,David Hand
Deborah G Mayo
While the common procedure of statistical significance testing and its accompanying concept of p-values have long been surrounded by controversy, renewed concern has been triggered by the replication crisis in science. Many blame statistica...
Martina Merz,Helene Sorgner
Martina Merz
Studies on 'Big Science' have shifted our perspective from the complexity of scientific objects and their representations to the complexity of sociotechnical arrangements. However, how scientists in large-scale research attend to this compl...
Marius Baumann
Marius Baumann
In this paper, I introduce a new challenge to moral realism: the skeptical argument from moral underdetermination. The challenge arises as a consequence of two recent projects in normative ethics. Both Parfit (On what matters, vol 1. Oxford...
Re-engineering contested concepts. A reflective-equilibrium approach [0.03%]
反思平衡视角下的 contested concepts 重构
Georg Brun
Georg Brun
Social scientists, political scientists and philosophers debate key concepts such as democracy, power and autonomy. Contested concepts like these pose questions: Are terms such as "democracy" hopelessly ambiguous? How can two theorists defe...
Lisa Vogt
Lisa Vogt
Dispositional Essentialism, as commonly conceived, consists in the claims that at least some of the fundamental properties essentially confer certain causal-nomological roles on their bearers, and that these properties give rise to the natu...
Theodore Bach
Theodore Bach
The kinds of real or natural kinds that support explanation and prediction in the social sciences are difficult to identify and track because they change through time, intersect with one another, and they do not always exhibit their propert...
Rebecca C H Brown,Mícheál de Barra,Brian D Earp
Rebecca C H Brown
This paper argues that there exists a collective epistemic state of 'Broad Medical Uncertainty' (BMU) regarding the effectiveness of many medical interventions. We outline the features of BMU, and describe some of the main contributing fact...
Amy Kind
Amy Kind
Editorial
Synthese. 2022;200(2):101. DOI:10.1007/s11229-022-03669-z 2022
The epistemic benefits of generalisation in modelling II: expressive power and abstraction [0.03%]
模型泛化的认识论益处之二：表达能力和抽象性
Aki Lehtinen
Aki Lehtinen
This paper contributes to the philosophical accounts of generalisation in formal modelling by introducing a conceptual framework that allows for recognising generalisations that are epistemically beneficial in the sense of contributing to t...
T Ryan Byerly
T Ryan Byerly
Philosophical reflection on transparency, including group transparency, is beginning to gain steam. This paper contributes to this work by developing a conceptualization of transparency as an intellectual character trait that groups can pos...