Damn the Consequences
Projective Evidence and the Heterogeneity of Scientific Confirmation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10707156 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Kyle Stanford (0000-0003-2018-8576, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 887-899 |
| Publication date | 2011-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/662283 |
| OpenAlex | W2175815961 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 9 |
I contrast our own evidence for the hypothesis of organic fossil origins with that available in previous centuries, suggesting that the most powerful contemporary evidence consists in a form of projective support whose distinctive features are not well captured by familiar hypothetico-deductive, abductive, or even more recent and more technically sophisticated (e.g., Bayesian) accounts of scientific confirmation. I suggest that such accounts either misrepresent or ignore something important about the heterogeneous ways in which scientific hypotheses can be supported by evidence, and I go on to suggest that the search for any single such account may be misguided in any case
Bayesian probability · Contrast (vision) · Epistemology · Projective test · Scientific evidence · Artificial Intelligence · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |