Science and Speculation
| dc.contributor.author | Currie, A | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-04T07:26:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-03-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Despite wide recognition that speculation is critical for successful science, philosophers have attended little to it. When they have, speculation has been characterized in narrowly epistemic terms: a hypothesis is speculative due to its (lack of) evidential support. These ‘evidence-first’ accounts provide little guidance for what makes speculation productive or egregious, nor how to foster the former while avoiding the latter. I examine how scientists discuss speculation and identify various functions speculations play. On this basis, I develop a ‘function-first’ account of speculation. This analysis grounds a richer discussion of when speculation is egregious and when it is productive, based in both fine-grained analysis of the speculation’s purpose, and what I call the ‘epistemic situation’ scientists face. | en_GB |
| dc.description.sponsorship | John Templeton Foundation | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.citation | Published online 1 March 2021 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s10670-020-00370-w | |
| dc.identifier.grantnumber | TWCF0431 | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/124272 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
| dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | en_GB |
| dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2021. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.title | Science and Speculation | en_GB |
| dc.type | Article | en_GB |
| dc.date.available | 2021-01-04T07:26:05Z | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0165-0106 | |
| dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
| dc.identifier.journal | Erkenntnis | en_GB |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
| dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-12-24 | |
| exeter.funder | ::The John Templeton Foundation | en_GB |
| rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
| rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-12-24 | |
| rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
| refterms.dateFCD | 2020-12-24T07:48:28Z | |
| refterms.versionFCD | AM | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-03-11T13:06:47Z | |
| refterms.panel | C | en_GB |
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