Objectivity, Ambiguity, and Theory Choice.

Kuhn argued that scientific theory choice is, in some sense, a rational matter, but one that is not fully determined by shared objective scientific virtues like accuracy, simplicity, and scope. Okasha imports Arrow's impossibility theorem into the context of theory choice to show that rather than no...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 84; no. 2; pp. 343 - 358
Main Authors: Marcoci, Alexandru, Nguyen, James
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Apr2019
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