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Paul Feyerabend and the Dialectical Character of Quantum Mechanics: A Lesson in Philosophical Dadaism 保罗·费耶阿本德与量子力学的辩证特征:哲学达达主义的一个教训
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2075687
R. Kent
ABSTRACT In 1966, Paul Feyerabend published a short essay on the relation between dialectical materialist philosophy and Niels Bohr’s quantum theory, in which he develops several provocative ideas about the relations between science, ideology and society. I use Feyerabend’s essay to construct an account of his ‘Dadaist’ philosophical methodology. I argue that Dadaism is an ironic form of intellectual seriousness, such that the Dadaist is prepared to take any idea or practice seriously as a potentially valuable contribution to collective human thought and action (despite any diverging personal convictions), especially if they find such engagement to be lacking in their local culture. I identify a weakness in Feyerabend’s formulation of Dadaism, so far as it is conceived as a matter of individual epistemic character and thus fails to account for the role of the social structure of intellectual activity. This weakness can be remedied by supplementing philosophical Dadaism with descriptions of the kinds of institutions and incentive structures that might cultivate its constitutive epistemic dispositions.
1966年,保罗·费耶阿本德(Paul Feyerabend)发表了一篇关于辩证唯物主义哲学与玻尔量子理论关系的短文,对科学、意识形态和社会之间的关系提出了一些具有挑衅性的观点。我用费耶阿本德的文章来构建他的“达达主义”哲学方法论。我认为,达达主义是一种具有讽刺意味的知识分子的严肃形式,因此,达达主义者准备认真对待任何想法或实践,将其视为对人类集体思想和行动的潜在有价值的贡献(尽管个人信念存在分歧),尤其是当他们发现当地文化缺乏这种参与时。我在费耶阿本德的达达主义表述中发现了一个弱点,因为它被认为是个体认知特征的问题,因此未能解释智力活动的社会结构的作用。这一弱点可以通过补充哲学达达主义,描述各种制度和激励结构来弥补,这些制度和激励结构可能会培养达达主义的构成性认知倾向。
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引用次数: 0
Single Magnetic Northpoles and Southpoles and Their Importance for Science 单磁极北极和南极及其对科学的重要性
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2158430
P. Feyerabend
The following lectures contain a report onnewexperimentalwork in thefieldofmagnetism. In the year 1942, after many years of research Ehrenhaft could finally make the following pronouncement: the universe contains not only electric currents but also magnetic currents. What, now, is a magnetic current? The idea of a current is taken from electricity and so are other concepts which we shall use in these lectures.
下面的讲座是关于我们在磁学领域的实验工作的报告。1942年,经过多年的研究,埃伦哈夫终于发表了以下声明:宇宙不仅包含电流,还包含磁流。现在,什么是磁流?电流的概念来源于电,我们将在这些讲座中使用的其他概念也是如此。
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引用次数: 2
On the Elusive Formalisation of the Risky Condition for Hypothesis Testing 假设检验风险条件的模糊形式化
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2084705
J. Díez, Albert Solé
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine possible formalisations of the riskiness condition for hypothesis testing. First, we informally introduce derivability and riskiness as testing conditions together with the corresponding arguments for refutation and confirmation. Then, we distinguish two different senses of confirmation and focus our discussion on one of them with the aid of a historical example. In the remaining sections, we offer a brief overview of the main references to the risky condition in the literature and scrutinise different options for formally capturing riskiness; we show why none of them works. We conclude with some remarks about the relation between derivability and riskiness and claim that riskiness essentially involves a contextual, pragmatic component that eludes a complete formal reconstruction.
在本文中,我们研究了假设检验的风险条件的可能形式化。首先,我们非正式地引入可衍生性和风险性作为测试条件,以及相应的反驳和确认论据。然后,我们区分了两种不同的确认意义,并借助一个历史例子将我们的讨论集中在其中一种意义上。在其余部分中,我们简要概述了文献中风险条件的主要参考文献,并仔细研究了正式捕获风险的不同选择;我们将展示为什么它们都不起作用。最后,我们对可衍生性和风险之间的关系进行了一些评论,并声称风险本质上涉及一个上下文的、实用的成分,它逃避了一个完整的形式重构。
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引用次数: 0
Induction, Rationality, and the Realism/Anti-realism Debate: A Reply to Shech 归纳、理性与现实主义/反现实主义之争:对谢赫的回答
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2113627
K. Wray
ABSTRACT Shech (2022) offers a critical assessment of my defense of anti-realism, developed in Resisting Scientific Realism. Induction and inductive inferences play a central role in Shech’s critical analysis of my defense of realism. I argue that Shech’s criticisms that relate to induction and inductive inference are problematic, and do not constitute a threat to my defense of anti-realism. Contrary to what Shech claims, the anti-realist does not need to explain why inductive inferences are successful. That is not part of contemporary realism/anti-realism debate. Further, such a demand fails to recognise that some anti-realists do not put much stock in induction.
摘要Shech(2022)对我在《抵制科学现实主义》中提出的反现实主义辩护进行了批判性评估。归纳和归纳推理在谢对我的现实主义辩护的批判性分析中起着核心作用。我认为,谢奇关于归纳和归纳推理的批评是有问题的,并不威胁我对反现实主义的辩护。与Shech所声称的相反,反现实主义者不需要解释为什么归纳推理是成功的。这不是当代现实主义/反现实主义辩论的一部分。此外,这样的要求并没有认识到一些反现实主义者对归纳法没有太多的重视。
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引用次数: 0
Darwinian-Selectionist Explanation, Radical Theory Change, and the Observable-Unobservable Dichotomy 达尔文选择主义的解释,激进的理论变化,以及可观察和不可观察的二分法
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2092824
E. Shech
ABSTRACT In his recent 2018 book, Resisting Scientific Realism, K. Brad Wray provides a detailed, full-fledged defense of anti-realism about science. In this paper, I argue against the two main claims that constitute Wray’s positive and novel argument for his position, viz., his suggested Darwinian-selectionist explanation of the success of science and his skepticism about unobservables based on radical theory change. My goal is not wholly negative though. Instead, I aim to identify the type of work that an anti-realist like Wray would need to undertake in order to further substantiate their position, viz., taking a stance on inductive inference and support, and the type of realist and anti-realist positions that seem viable.
在他2018年出版的新书《抵制科学现实主义》中,K. Brad Wray对科学的反现实主义进行了详细而全面的辩护。在本文中,我反对构成雷的积极和新颖的论点的两个主要主张,即他对科学成功的达尔文选择主义解释和他对基于激进理论变化的不可观察现象的怀疑。不过,我的目标并不完全是消极的。相反,我的目标是确定像Wray这样的反现实主义者需要进行的工作类型,以便进一步证实他们的立场,即采取归纳推理和支持的立场,以及似乎可行的现实主义和反现实主义立场的类型。
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引用次数: 2
The Tools of Metaphysics and the Metaphysics of Science 《形而上学的工具与科学的形而上学
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-10-02 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2098463
Vassilis Livanios
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引用次数: 0
Assessing the Overall Validity of Randomised Controlled Trials 评估随机对照试验的总体有效性
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2021.2002676
A. Krauss
ABSTRACT In the biomedical, behavioural and social sciences, the leading method used to estimate causal effects is commonly randomised controlled trials (RCTs) that are generally viewed as both the source and justification of the most valid evidence. In studying the foundation and theory behind RCTs, the existing literature analyses important single issues and biases in isolation that influence causal outcomes in trials (such as randomisation, statistical probabilities and placebos). The common account of biased causal inference is described in a general way in terms of probabilistic imbalances between trial groups. This paper expands the common account of causal bias by distinguishing between the range of biases arising between trial groups but also within one of the groups or across the entire sample during trial design, implementation and analysis. This is done by providing concrete examples from highly influential RCT studies. In going beyond the existing RCT literature, the paper provides a broader, practice-based account of causal bias that specifies the between-group, within-group and across-group biases that affect the estimated causal results of trials – impacting both the effect size and statistical significance. Within this expanded framework, we can better identify the range of different types of biases we face in practice and address the central question about the overall validity of the RCT method and its causal claims. A study can face several smaller biases (related simultaneously to a smaller sample, smaller estimated effect, greater unblinding etc.) that generally add up to greater aggregate bias. Though difficult to measure precisely, it is important to assess and provide information in studies on how much different sources of bias, combined, can explain the estimated causal effect. The RCT method is thereby often the best we have to inform our policy decisions – and the evidence is strengthened when combined with multiple studies and other methods. Yet there is room for continually improving trials and identifying ways to reduce biases they face and to increase their overall validity. Implications are discussed.
摘要在生物医学、行为科学和社会科学中,用于估计因果影响的主要方法通常是随机对照试验,这些试验通常被视为最有效证据的来源和理由。在研究随机对照试验背后的基础和理论时,现有文献单独分析了影响试验因果结果的重要单一问题和偏差(如随机化、统计概率和安慰剂)。有偏见的因果推断的常见解释是根据试验组之间的概率失衡来描述的。本文通过在试验设计、实施和分析过程中区分试验组之间、其中一组内或整个样本中出现的偏差范围,扩展了因果偏差的常见解释。这是通过提供极具影响力的随机对照试验研究的具体例子来实现的。在超越现有随机对照试验文献的基础上,该论文对因果偏差进行了更广泛的、基于实践的描述,具体说明了影响试验估计因果结果的组间、组内和组间偏差——影响效应大小和统计显著性。在这个扩展的框架内,我们可以更好地识别我们在实践中面临的各种不同类型的偏见,并解决关于随机对照试验方法及其因果声明的总体有效性的核心问题。一项研究可能面临几个较小的偏差(同时与较小的样本、较小的估计效果、较大的揭盲等有关),这些偏差通常加起来会导致更大的总偏差。尽管很难精确测量,但重要的是在研究中评估和提供信息,说明不同的偏见来源加在一起可以解释估计的因果效应。因此,随机对照试验方法通常是我们为政策决策提供信息的最佳方法,当与多项研究和其他方法相结合时,证据会得到加强。然而,仍有不断改进试验的空间,并确定减少他们面临的偏见和提高其总体有效性的方法。讨论了影响。
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引用次数: 3
Treatment Effectiveness and the Russo–Williamson Thesis, EBM+, and Bradford Hill's Viewpoints 治疗效果与Russo-Williamson论文、EBM+和Bradford Hill的观点
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2054396
S. Tresker
ABSTRACT Establishing the effectiveness of medical treatments is one of the most important aspects of medical practice. Bradford Hill's viewpoints play an important role in inferring causality in medicine, and EBM+ seeks to improve evidence-based medicine, which is influential in establishing treatment effectiveness. At EBM+'s foundations lies the Russo–Williamson thesis (RWT), which can be seen as providing a reduction of Hill's viewpoints into those involving difference-making and mechanistic evidence, both of which are claimed by the RWT's proponents to be typically required for establishing causal claims in medicine. Yet little has been written on whether and how the RWT, EBM+, and Hill's viewpoints establish treatment effectiveness. This could be because of uncertainty over what treatment effectiveness is. I provide an account of treatment effectiveness, analysing the role of the RWT, EBM+, and Hill's viewpoints in this regard. I argue that Hill's viewpoints and EBM+ can be useful in helping to evaluate evidence, but cannot directly establish or confirm treatment effectiveness. This is partly because effectiveness, I claim, is subject to inductive risk and therefore determined by non-epistemic values, neither of which Hill's viewpoints nor EBM+ offer guidance on. I conclude by reinterpreting Hill's viewpoints in light of establishing treatment effectiveness.
确定医疗的有效性是医学实践中最重要的方面之一。Bradford Hill的观点在推断医学因果关系方面发挥着重要作用,EBM+寻求改进循证医学,这对确定治疗效果有影响。在EBM+的基础上是Russo–Williamson论文(RWT),该论文可以被视为将Hill的观点简化为涉及差异制造和机制证据的观点,RWT的支持者声称这两种观点通常是建立医学因果关系所必需的。然而,关于RWT、EBM+和Hill的观点是否以及如何建立治疗有效性,几乎没有文献报道。这可能是因为治疗效果的不确定性。我提供了治疗效果的说明,分析了RWT、EBM+和Hill在这方面的观点的作用。我认为Hill的观点和EBM+可以帮助评估证据,但不能直接确定或证实治疗效果。这在一定程度上是因为,我声称,有效性受到诱导风险的影响,因此由非认知价值观决定,Hill的观点和EBM+都没有提供指导。最后,我根据确定治疗有效性的角度重新解释Hill的观点。
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引用次数: 4
Pseudoscience as a Negative Outcome of Scientific Dialogue: A Pragmatic-Naturalistic Approach to the Demarcation Problem 伪科学是科学对话的消极结果:对划界问题的实用主义-自然主义方法
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2022.2057777
Stefaan Blancke, M. Boudry
ABSTRACT The demarcation between science and pseudoscience is a long-standing problem in philosophy of science. Although philosophers have been hesitant to engage in this project since Larry Laudan announced its demise in the 1980s, pseudoscience as a societal phenomenon did not disappear, and many policy makers and scientists continue to use the concept. Therefore, the philosophical challenge of explaining what pseudoscience is and how it differs from genuine science still stands. Even though it might well be impossible to identify all pseudosciences by means of a set of necessary and sufficient conditions, we can nonetheless, in a naturalistic fashion, establish that pseudoscience is a real phenomenon, diagnose recurring features and symptoms, and explain how these emerge. In this paper we argue that science builds on and emerges from interactive reasoning, a process that, under particular conditions, weeds out beliefs and practices that are not (sufficiently) justified. When people nevertheless think of these beliefs and practices as equivalent to or even better than the ones accepted by the scientific community, they are rightfully regarded as pseudoscience. We explain the processes by which beliefs and practices may degenerate into pseudoscience and discuss the implications of our demarcation approach for the understanding of pseudoscience.
科学与伪科学的界限是科学哲学中一个长期存在的问题。尽管自拉里·劳丹在20世纪80年代宣布该项目消亡以来,哲学家们一直在犹豫是否参与该项目,但伪科学作为一种社会现象并没有消失,许多政策制定者和科学家仍在继续使用这一概念。因此,解释什么是伪科学以及它与真正科学的区别的哲学挑战仍然存在。尽管通过一系列必要和充分的条件来识别所有伪科学可能是不可能的,但我们仍然可以以自然主义的方式确定伪科学是一种真实的现象,诊断反复出现的特征和症状,并解释这些特征和症状是如何出现的。在这篇论文中,我们认为科学建立在互动推理的基础上,并从互动推理中产生,在特定条件下,互动推理会剔除不(充分)合理的信念和实践。然而,当人们认为这些信仰和实践等同于甚至优于科学界所接受的信仰和实践时,他们理所当然地被视为伪科学。我们解释了信仰和实践可能退化为伪科学的过程,并讨论了我们的划界方法对理解伪科学的影响。
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引用次数: 2
In Defence of an Inferential Account of Extrapolation 为外推的推论解释辩护
IF 0.8 2区 哲学 Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI: 10.1080/02698595.2021.2015678
T. Baetu
ABSTRACT According to the hypothesis-generator account, valid extrapolations from a source to a target system are circular, since they rely on knowledge of relevant similarities and differences that can only be obtained by investigating the target, thus removing the need to extrapolate; hence, extrapolative reasoning can only be useful as a method for generating hypotheses. I reject this view in favour of an inferential account, focused on extrapolations underpinning the aggregation of experimental results, and explore two lines of argumentation supporting the conclusion that these extrapolations can be validated in a noncircular manner. The first argument relies on formal proofs of inferential validity demonstrating that it is possible to reason from prior knowledge of causal structures in order to determine whether a claim can be extrapolated. The second argument builds on the fact that the hypothesis-generator account overlooks key inferential and experimental practices resulting in progressively better-informed extrapolations.
摘要根据假设生成器的说法,从来源到目标系统的有效外推是循环的,因为它们依赖于只有通过调查目标才能获得的相关相似性和差异性知识,从而消除了外推的必要性;因此,推断推理只能作为一种产生假设的方法。我拒绝这种观点,支持推理解释,专注于支撑实验结果聚合的推断,并探索了两条论证线,以支持这些推断可以以非圆形方式验证的结论。第一个论点依赖于推理有效性的形式证明,证明有可能根据因果结构的先验知识进行推理,以确定一个主张是否可以外推。第二个论点建立在这样一个事实之上,即假设生成器的账户忽略了关键的推理和实验实践,从而导致了越来越明智的推断。
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