Bezhodnotová veda ako produkt sekvenčnej argumentácie

• Authors: Marek Káčer

Title variants

EN

Value-free science as a product of sequential reasoning

DE

Wertfreie Wissenschaft als Produkt der Sequenzargumentation

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

Can scientists invoke the value of good when seeking the truth? Richard Rudner claims they can because when they are setting the degree of the sufficient strength of scientific evidence, they take into consideration the social consequences of their eventual errors. However, as far as we conceive value-free science as a requirement for the privileged, not exclusive, status of epistemic values, then Rudner’s insight does not refute but rather confirms it. A reasoning sequence in which we scrutinize the tenability of a hypothesis or a theory based on epistemic criteria is different from a sequence in which we scrutinize the epistemic criteria themselves. For value-free science, scientists must not swing between these two sequences arbitrarily.

Keywords

EN

epistemic and non-epistemic values; first-order and second-order reasons; structured legal discourse; reasoning sequences; Rudner’s argument; value-free science

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 69
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 509-524
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marek Káčer

• Filosofický časopis, redakce, Filosofický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic