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Curiosity and Scientific Knowledge in Opposition to Religious Knowledge
This chapter addresses the contrast between the way curiosity is regarded in scientific disciplines and the way it has been regarded in the Christian...
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Through Numerical Simulation to Scientific Knowledge
Numerical simulations are used for the approximate prediction of situations under strictly defined conditions. They are based on mathematical models...
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Scientific Knowledge and Social Responsibility
This Chapter aims to present a very preliminary exploration of the role and functioning of some ‘leading ideas’ that represent the most consistent...
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Cleaning, sculpting or preparing? Scientific knowledge in Caitlin Wylie’s preparing dinosaurs
Caitlin Wylie’s “Preparing Dinosaurs: the work behind the scenes” (MIT Press 2021) provides a rich ethnographic analysis of the work of fossil...
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Progressing Bird’s account of scientific progress
One of the central claims of Alexander Bird’s book Knowing Science is that the concept of knowledge is central to understanding science. In light of...
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Doing Violence to the Production of Scientific Knowledge
In this chapter I will analyze some important aspects of the organization of Research and Development (R &D) in the case of biopharmaceutical...
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Re-situations of scientific knowledge: a case study of a skirmish over clusters vs clines in human population genomics
We track and analyze the re-situation of scientific knowledge in the field of human population genomics ancestry studies. We understand re-situation...
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Authorizing the ‘taste of place’ for Galápagos Islands coffee: scientific knowledge, development politics, and power in geographical indication implementation
Based on the French notion of terroir or ‘the taste of place,’ a certified geographical indication (GI) identifies an agro-food product as...
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Physicists’ views on scientific realism
Do physicists believe that general relativity is true , and that electrons and phonons exist , and if so, in what sense? To what extent does the...
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Who’s afraid of common knowledge?
Some arguments against the assumption that ordinary people may share common knowledge are sound. The apparent cost of such arguments is the rejection...
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Scientific practice as ecological-enactive co-construction
Philosophy of science has undergone a naturalistic turn, moving away from traditional idealized concerns with the logical structure of scientific...
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The subject of knowledge in collaborative science
The epistemic subject of collective scientific knowledge has been a matter of dispute in recent philosophy of science and epistemology. Following the...
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Scientific Realism and Scientific Understanding
According to epistemism, we scientifically understand explananda in terms of explanantia, provided that they are true and we justifiably believe...
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How (not) to integrate scientific and moral realism
In this essay, I seek to clarify and defend a unified account of realism, i.e. a conception of realism that does not only apply to philosophy of...
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Straightening the ‘value-laden turn’: minimising the influence of extra-scientific values in science
Straightening the current ‘value-laden turn’ (VLT) in the philosophical literature on values in science, and reviving the legacy of the value-free...
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Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn
The theme surrounding scientific discoveries is quite neglected in and about the sciences, especially in terms of historical and epistemological...
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Epistemological scientism and the scientific meta-method
This paper argues that the proponents of epistemological scientism must take some stand on scientific methodology. The supporters of scientism cannot...
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We should redefine scientific expertise: an extended virtue account
An expert is commonly considered to be somebody who possesses the right kind of knowledge and skills to find out true answers for questions in a...
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Grounding scientific representation
In this article, I will offer a ground-theoretic proposal to explore the so-called ‘constitution question of scientific representation’: in virtue of ...
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Knowledge in real-world contexts: not glamorous, but indispensable
During the past several decades, many epistemologists have argued for and contributed to a paradigm shift according to which knowledge is central to...