PHIL 2301 Lecture Notes - Rationality, Bes
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Rationality and objectivity in science or tom kuhn meets tom bayes. Kuhn on scientific rationality (552: kuhn"s challenge to the logical empiricist philosophy of science concerns the nature of theory choice in science, there are two fundamental theories, they cannot be resolved by proof. To see how they are resolved, you must techniques or persuasion or argument and counter-argument in a situation in which there can be no proof . It cannot be rendered logically explicit and precise: individual scientists may, at a given moment, differ regarding a particular choice of theories. This has led some philosophers to believe that theory choice is not rational. Kuhn, in contrast, has tried to locate the additional factors that are involved. These additional factors constitute a crucial aspect of scientific rationality. It does not take account of alternative hypotheses that might be invoked to explain the same prediction. It makes no reference to the initial plausibility of the hypothesis being evaluated.
