Neglecting the history of science and the philosophy of technology risks appealing to simple epistemic entitlements to justify our reliance on new technology. This is simply inadequate for novel technologies in scientific practice. https://t.co/13JfxcSXN8
One's attitude towards the role of these systems in science will ultimately depend on what one thinks science is for. This will vary contextually. Nevertheless, when it matters, retreating into pragmatism is a mistake as we argue here https://t.co/K9yUnp
@johnfsymons For those https://t.co/13JfxcSXN8
In case you are interested, here’s our paper with the thought experiment. Roughly, while black box technologies can be both a product of scientific inquiry/useful bc of their predictive power, those using them are not, strictly speaking, doing science. htt
@lastpositivist At least from the perspective of philosophy of science/computation, you can find some reasons we find pragmatism inadequate for scientific inquiry in the second section of this paper: https://t.co/eUZ28t5u4A
Congrats, @johnfsymons and @ramonalvaradoq!
Great contemporary writing by two philosophers on epistemology and computation.
RT @ramonalvaradoq: Our paper (with @johnfsymons ) "Epistemic Entitlements and the Practice of Computer Simulation" is finally out in Minds…
Our paper (with @johnfsymons ) "Epistemic Entitlements and the Practice of Computer Simulation" is finally out in Minds and Machines. Great way to start the year! You can read it here: https://t.co/vxrExhCkDU
A read only link sent via the publisher to this paper https://t.co/0rOYMqSPaP
RT @johnfsymons: Epistemic Entitlements and the Practice of Computer Simulation (with Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvaradoq) is finally in "print"…
Epistemic Entitlements and the Practice of Computer Simulation (with Ramón Alvarado @ramonalvaradoq) is finally in "print". @cpsvo Check it out: https://t.co/OSXrXJQtoQ