Michael T Stuart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1056201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael T Stuart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael T |
| FAMILY NAME | Stuart |
| SIGNATURE | STUART M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4165-2641 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A New Account of Pragmatic Understanding, Applied to the Case of AI-Assisted Science
The qualitative study of scientific imagination
Imagination is extremely important for science, yet very little is known about how scientists actually use it. Are scientists taught to imagine? What do they value imagination for? How do social and disciplinary factors shape it? How is the labor of imagining distributed? These questions should be high priority for anyone who studies or practices science, and this paper argues that the best methods for addressing them are qualitative. I summarize…
Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories
This paper attempts to revive the epistemological discussion of scientific articles. What are their epistemic aims, and how are they achieved? We argue that scientific experimental articles are best understood as a particular kind of narrative: i.e., modernist narratives (think: Woolf, Joyce), at least in the sense that they employ many of the same techniques, including colligation and the juxtaposition of multiple perspectives. We suggest that t…
Counterpossibles in science
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination
Scientists imagine for epistemic reasons, and these imaginings can be better or worse. But what does it mean for an imagining to be epistemically better or worse? There are at least three metaepistemological frameworks that offer different answers to this question: epistemological consequentialism, deontic epistemology, and virtue epistemology. This paper presents empirical evidence that scientists adopt each of these different epistemic framewor…
Bedeviled
Sharpening the tools of imagination
Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination
The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination
Imagination is important for many things in science: solving problems, interpreting data, designing studies, and much else. Philosophers of imagination typically account for the productive role played by imagination in science by focusing on how imagination is constrained, for example, by self-imposed rules to infer logically or model events accurately. But the constraints offered by these philosophers constrain either too much or not enough, and…
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Taming theory with thought experiments
Taming theory with thought experiments
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination
Imagination is important for many things in science: solving problems, interpreting data, designing studies, and much else. Philosophers of imagination typically account for the productive role played by imagination in science by focusing on how imagination is constrained, for example, by self-imposed rules to infer logically or model events accurately. But the constraints offered by these philosophers constrain either too much or not enough, and…
Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination
Counterpossibles in science
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination
Scientists imagine for epistemic reasons, and these imaginings can be better or worse. But what does it mean for an imagining to be epistemically better or worse? There are at least three metaepistemological frameworks that offer different answers to this question: epistemological consequentialism, deontic epistemology, and virtue epistemology. This paper presents empirical evidence that scientists adopt each of these different epistemic framewor…
Sharpening the tools of imagination
The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments
Taming theory with thought experiments
The Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
Routledge Companion to Thought Experiments
The material theory of induction and the epistemology of thought experiments
The Productive Anarchy of Scientific Imagination
Imagination is important for many things in science: solving problems, interpreting data, designing studies, and much else. Philosophers of imagination typically account for the productive role played by imagination in science by focusing on how imagination is constrained, for example, by self-imposed rules to infer logically or model events accurately. But the constraints offered by these philosophers constrain either too much or not enough, and…
Towards a dual process epistemology of imagination
Sharpening the tools of imagination
Counterpossibles in science
Scientists Are Epistemic Consequentialists about Imagination
Scientists imagine for epistemic reasons, and these imaginings can be better or worse. But what does it mean for an imagining to be epistemically better or worse? There are at least three metaepistemological frameworks that offer different answers to this question: epistemological consequentialism, deontic epistemology, and virtue epistemology. This paper presents empirical evidence that scientists adopt each of these different epistemic framewor…
Bedeviled
The qualitative study of scientific imagination
Imagination is extremely important for science, yet very little is known about how scientists actually use it. Are scientists taught to imagine? What do they value imagination for? How do social and disciplinary factors shape it? How is the labor of imagining distributed? These questions should be high priority for anyone who studies or practices science, and this paper argues that the best methods for addressing them are qualitative. I summarize…
Scientific experimental articles are modernist stories
This paper attempts to revive the epistemological discussion of scientific articles. What are their epistemic aims, and how are they achieved? We argue that scientific experimental articles are best understood as a particular kind of narrative: i.e., modernist narratives (think: Woolf, Joyce), at least in the sense that they employ many of the same techniques, including colligation and the juxtaposition of multiple perspectives. We suggest that t…
A New Account of Pragmatic Understanding, Applied to the Case of AI-Assisted Science
Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophy of science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works)