eprintid: 1473371
rev_number: 35
eprint_status: archive
userid: 608
dir: disk0/01/47/33/71
datestamp: 2015-12-18 15:55:04
lastmod: 2021-09-29 22:19:17
status_changed: 2016-04-14 14:18:34
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Maxwell, N
title: What’s Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism?
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F58
keywords: Empiricism, Metaphysics of physics, Philosophy of physics, Rationality, Scientific method, Theoretical unity
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.
date: 2015
date_type: published
publisher: Estonian Association of the History and Philosophy of Science
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.11590/abhps.2015.2.01
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1094433
doi: 10.11590/abhps.2015.2.01
lyricists_name: Maxwell, Nicholas
lyricists_id: ANMAX22
actors_name: Maxwell, Nicholas
actors_id: ANMAX22
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum
volume: 3
number: 2
pagerange: 5-31
pages: 27
event_location: Estonia
issn: 2228-2009
citation:        Maxwell, N;      (2015)    What’s Wrong With Aim-Oriented Empiricism?                   Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum , 3  (2)   pp. 5-31.    10.11590/abhps.2015.2.01 <https://doi.org/10.11590/abhps.2015.2.01>.       Green open access   
 
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