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- Title
What's Wrong with Aim-Oriented Empiricism?
- Authors
Maxwell, Nicholas
- Abstract
For four decades it has been argued that we need to adopt a new conception of science called aim-oriented empiricism. This has far-reaching implications and repercussions for science, the philosophy of science, academic inquiry in general, the conception of rationality, and how we go about attempting to make progress towards as good a world as possible. Despite these far-reaching repercussions, aim-oriented empiricism has so far received scant attention from philosophers of science. Here, sixteen objections to the validity of the argument for aim-oriented empiricism are subjected to critical scrutiny.
- Subjects
EMPIRICISM; PRACTICAL reason; ARGUMENT; HISTORY
- Publication
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum, 2015, Vol 3, Issue 2, p5
- ISSN
2228-2009
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11590/abhps.2015.2.01