Group Rationality in Scientific Research

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-521-87113-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 644 g

Under what conditions is a group of scientists rational? How would rational scientists collectively agree to make their group more effective? What sorts of negotiations would occur among them and under what conditions? What effect would their final agreement have on science and society? These questions have been central to the philosophy of science for the last two decades. In this book, Husain Sarkar proposes answers to them by building on classical solutions - the skeptical view, two versions of the subjectivist view, the objectivist view, and the view of Hilary Putnam. Although he finds these solutions not completely adequate, Sarkar retrieves what is of value from them and also expropriates the arguments of John Rawls and Amartya Sen, in order to weave a richer, deeper, and more developed theory of group rationality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sarkar, Husain

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The overview; 2. Group rationality: a unique problem; 3. The problem explored: Sen's way; 4. The skeptical view; 5. The subjectivist view - I; 6. The subjectivist view - II; 7. The objectivist view; 8. Putnam, individual rationality, and Peirce's puzzle; 9. The nine problems.

Über Autor(innen)

Sarkar, Husain
Husain Sarkar is professor of philosophy at Louisiana State University. A recipient of LSU's Distinguished Faculty Research Award, he is the author of Descartes' Cogito: Saved from the Great Shipwreck.