The Value of Surprise in Science.
Scientific results are often presented as 'surprising' as if that is a good thing. Is it? And if so, why? What is the value of surprise in science? Discussions of surprise in science have been limited, but surprise has been used as a way of defending the epistemic privilege of experiments over simul...
| Publicado en: | Erkenntnis Vol. 88; no. 4; pp. 1447 - 1467 |
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Apr2023
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