Questions tagged [social-epistemology]
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Are Methodological Assumptions of StackExchange Fundamentally Flawed?
I looked here for an answer while writing a paper on evidence and scientific inference. I then saw the bold claims made by the website that the process goes as follows:
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If everything is theory laden, how can one argue against climate change deniers?
Per Quine's results from "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", the Duhem-Quine thesis, and later results such as those of Kuhn and Feyerabend, all empirical observations are theory laden. Even widely accepted facts such as the Earth is round or the Earth…
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Social theory of science?
A lot of philosophers of science try to explain what science is through a normative approach. That it, they try to show what are norms and standards the satisfaction of which make a theory or practice scientific.
Now, with recent views in social…
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How can one objectivley measure the nobility or value of a given pursuit?
John Stuart Mill famously said:
It is quite compatible with the principle of utility to recognise the fact, that some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others. It would be absurd that while, in estimating all other…
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Why is philosophy viewed as unnecessary, extra, by the common man?
This may be more of a sociology or psychology question as
I do not mean "What is the point of philosophy today?" (You can find many related questions at my favorites.)
Then what I mean is, how does one go about helping "non-philosophers" understand…
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Does culture bias weaken the argument that modern science and a religious world view are compatible?
A typical argument between an atheist and a theist goes along the following lines:
ATH: "Modern science and reason are incompatible with a religious world view."
TH: "That's not true, many scientists, mathematicians and philosophers are also people…
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How does one distinguish fact and belief?
I have seen a similar question, but I am looking for the distinction between fact and belief, and not knowledge and belief. Also, I do not seek, necessarily, Plato's view.
In order to distinguish fact and belief, I started by the definition of the…
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Axiomatic politics
Is there a formalized version of politics out there? I think political debates on TV today are just like spewing junk. We really need to formalize and logically analyze politics (in my opinion). Anyone knows any books or papers on this?
What are…
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Are there any critical responses to Peter Winch?
In The Idea of a Social Science, Winch takes a hard stance against naturalistic and positive accounts of social phenomena. In fact, he argues that we cannot understand the meaning of social action causally. Have there been critical responses…
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What is Wittgenstein's "criterial solution" to the problem of other minds?
I'm having difficulty with the language in this article on the Problem of Other Minds. It provides 3 solutions to the epistemological problem of other minds in section 1.1 - "The Epistemological Problem". I'm having difficulty understanding the…
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What is the relationship between the rhizome and the body without organs?
I am in the middle of A Thousand Plateaus and considering the relationship between rhizome and body without organs.
One thought I had is that they both take part in the constitution of relationships between ideas, society, groups; but neither are…
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References Request about Social Networks
I want to explore what paradigms underlie social networks (especially online networks as twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc.) with respect to several aspects. For example, regarding knowledge: do social networks epistemologically relativistic in that…
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Is evolutionary "morality" really the same thing as human morality?
In a different question I asked, Chris Johns' answer pinpointed exactly why all of the answers didn't satisfy me, so I'd like to ask a follow-up question which will further focus my question - would you consider bees moral?
All the answers in my…
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What makes analytic (social) epistemology relevant?
In a recent paper, Steve Fuller lambasts the analytic social epistemologist as having little understanding of how knowledge making actually works in the real world. The criticism is that the analytic approach has not made any significant progress…
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What are the epistemic problems or justifications for obtaining knowledge from StackExchange sites?
What philosophical problems are there with obtaining knowledge by picking the correct or closest answer from a small set of solutions? And further, what are the problems/justifications for judging knowledge based on the democratization of questions…
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