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USMERŇOVANIE SOCIÁLNEHO OBRATU VO FILOZOFII VEDY

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Longino H. E.

Filozofia (Philosophy)

2009

vol. 64

issue 4

312-323

Over the last three decades the role of social values in science has been the topic issue in the disputes of the philosophers of science against the representatives of science studies. Due to the key status of sciences in developed countries and societies it is necessary, so the authoress, not only to acknowledge, that cognitive and epistemic practices have their social dimensions, but also to make the practices of the research communities themselves open for critical examination from different perspectives. In the paper (originally delivered as a lecture at Comenius University) the authoress presents her own theory of the critical contextual empiricism, comparing it with the approach of the American philosopher Philip Kitcher.

UNIFICATION AND THE MYTH OF PURELY REDUCTIVE UNDERSTANDING

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Shaffer M. J.

Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu

2020

vol. 27

issue 2

142 – 168

In this paper significant challenges are raised with respect to the view that explanation essentially involves unification. These objections are raised specifically with respect to the well-known versions of unificationism developed and defended by Michael Friedman and Philip Kitcher. The objections involve the explanatory regress argument and the concepts of reduction and scientific understanding. Essentially, the contention made here is that these versions of unificationism wrongly assume that reduction secures understanding.

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UNIFICATION AND THE MYTH OF PURELY REDUCTIVE UNDERSTANDING