scholarly journals Risk, Reward, and Scientific Ontology: Reply to Bryant, Psillos, and Slater

Dialogue ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63
Author(s):  
Anjan Chakravartty
Keyword(s):  
Correct Answer ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
Ontological Commitments ◽  
Naturalized Metaphysics ◽  
Epistemic Stances ◽  
Scientific Ontology

ABSTRACTScientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology contends that ontological commitments associated with scientific inquiry are infused with philosophical commitments. Interpretations of scientific ontology involve (what I call) metaphysical inferences, and furthermore, there are different ways of making these inferences, on the basis of different but nonetheless rational epistemic stances. If correct, this problematizes any neat distinction between naturalized and other metaphysics, and dissolves any presumption of there being a uniquely correct answer to ontological questions connected to the sciences. In this paper, I consider some weighty challenges to these contentions by Amanda Bryant, Stathis Psillos, and Matthew Slater.

A Thousand Flowers on the Road to Epistemic Anarchy: Comments on Chakravartty's Scientific Ontology

Dialogue ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Support ◽  
The Road ◽  
Epistemic Stance ◽  
Naturalized Metaphysics ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Epistemic Stances ◽  
Scientific Ontology

ABSTRACTI introduce the symposium on Anjan Chakravartty's Scientific Ontology by summarizing the book's main claims. In my commentary, I first challenge Chakravartty's claim that naturalized metaphysics cannot be indexed to science simpliciter. Second, I argue that there are objective truths regarding what conduces to particular epistemic aims, and that Chakravartty is therefore too permissive regarding epistemic stances and their resultant ontologies. Third, I argue that it is unclear what stops epistemic stances from having unlimited influence. Finally, I argue that Chakravartty's epistemic stance voluntarism is inadequately motivated and lacks empirical support for its psychological content.

scholarly journals Subatomic Particles, Epistemic Stances, and Kantian Antinomies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Henschen
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Structural Realism ◽  
Transcendental Idealism ◽  
Ontic Structural Realism ◽  
Subatomic Particles ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Town ◽  
Epistemic Stances ◽  
Empirical Realism ◽  
Scientific Ontology

AbstractIn Scientific Ontology, Chakravartty diagnoses a “dramatic conflict” between empiricism and metaphysics and aims to overcome that conflict by opting for a modern-day variant of Pyrrhonism, i.e. by appreciating the equal strength (isostheneia) of the arguments for and against the empiricist and metaphysical positions, and by achieving tranquility (ataraxia) by suspending judgment or remaining speechless in the face of that isostheneia. In this paper, I want to argue that instead of remaining speechless in the face of the isostheneia of the arguments for and against the empiricist and metaphysical positions, we should adopt a position that remains underrated in Chakravartty’s analysis: a position that amounts to a modern-day variant of the Kantian combination of transcendental idealism and empirical realism, and that like the original Kantian combination, is capable of solving many instances of the dramatic conflict between empiricism and metaphysics and, in particular, a conflict that is the talk of the town in philosophy of science these days—the conflict between ontic-structural realism and Lewisian metaphysics.

APA Summit on National Assessment of Psychology: Executive Summary: Goal 2: Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Mueller ◽  
Keisa Kelly ◽  
Helen Taylor ◽  
Karen Brakke ◽  
Gary Levine ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
National Assessment ◽  
Executive Summary

Psychology Feud: When the Correct Answer Isn't the Most Valued

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Jean Mandernach ◽  
Theresa A. Wadkins ◽  
William J. Wozniak
Keyword(s):  
Correct Answer

If Not Here, Then Where? On the Location and Individuation of Events in Badiou and Deleuze

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Williams
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Ontological Commitments

This paper sets out a series of critical contrasts between Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of the event. It does so in the context of some likely objections to their positions from a broadly analytic position. These objections concern problems of individuation and location in space-time. The paper also explains Deleuze and Badiou's views on the event through a literary application on a short story by John Cheever. In conclusion it is argued that both thinkers have good answers to the objections, but that they diverge on the ontological commitments of their definitions of the event.

Death in the City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn A. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Inquiry ◽  
The United States ◽  
Violent Death ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Intimate Friend ◽  
Counter Narrative ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
European Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actors who looked away from human misery, but to essentialize a diverse group of people as possessing a unique death cult delights those who want to see the exotic in Mexico or distinguish that society from its peers. Examining tragic and untimely death—namely self-annihilation—reveals a counter narrative. What could be more chilling than suicide, especially the violent death of the young? What desperation or madness pushed the victim to raise the gun to the temple or slip the noose around the neck? A close examination of a wide range of twentieth-century historical documents proves that Mexicans did not accept death with a cavalier chuckle nor develop a unique death cult, for that matter. Quite the reverse, Mexicans behaved just as their contemporaries did in Austria, France, England, and the United States. They devoted scientific inquiry to the malady and mourned the loss of each life to suicide.

NÖROPAZARLAMA ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erol Ustaahmetoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Correct Answer ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
General Evaluation ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
Technological Developments

Traditional research methods are inadequate to predict and explain consumer behavior accurately in some cases. Marketing discipline tries to benefit from new technological developments in order to make up the deficiency subjects’ competence and willingness to express how they feel when they face with stimulus in traditional data collection method has an effect on the success of the method. In traditional methods, subjects often cannot remember or know the correct answer, or even if they know the answer they will give answers that satisfy the researcher. The inadequacy in traditional techniques has driven the researchers to evaluate theconsumer response more accurately. It is observed that in recent years neuromarketing techniques began to be used extensively to measure consumer responses accurate in marketing field. Although neuromarketing is commonly used in marketing field, there are some questions about the efficiency of the method. This study emphasizes the efficiency on the general evaluation of neuromarketing techniques and criticism of it. The aim of this study is to indicate the historical development of application of neuro science on marketing and consumer behavior, and to establish the future of neuro science, its opportunities and threats.

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