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- Title
A GOLDILOCKS APPROACH TO THE PHILOSOPHY-SCIENCE RELATION.
- Authors
Burgos, José E.
- Abstract
The Goldilocks Principle recommends sometimes seeking just the right amount of something. In this paper, I apply this principle to pursue a more judicious view of the relation between philosophy (P) and science (S). Extreme views contrary to GA depict the PS relation as one of destructive incompatibility, indifferent independence, or toxic asymmetric dependence. Contrary to both extremes, the Goldilocks Approach (GA) suggests more moderate depictions of P and S as sufficiently diverse to enjoy professional sovereignty and disagree, but also sufficiently compatible to enable meaningful interdisciplinary cooperation. GA also advises a greater emphasis on casebased investigation that gives equal importance to the context of justification (analytic normative considerations about the logic of linguistic products) and the context of discovery (descriptions of the biopsychosocial aspects of the processes that lead to such products). All this makes for a more balanced, potentially constructive and fruitful relation in selected matters. I exemplify with cases at the intersections between psychology and the Ps of language, mind, and S.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; COOPERATION; SOVEREIGNTY
- Publication
Behavior & Philosophy, 2020, Vol 48, p47
- ISSN
1053-8348
- Publication type
Article