Underdetermination as an epistemological test tube: expounding hidden values of the scientific community
Underdetermination as an epistemological test tube: expounding hidden values of the scientific community
复制标题
作为认识论试管的不确定性：阐明科学界的隐藏价值
作者：
M. Carrier
迪昂-奎因的欠定通过指出非经验美德或认知价值对理论选择的影响，在认识论中起到了建设性的作用。因此，欠确定有助于阐明科学合理性的本质。科学家更喜欢并接受经验上等价的选择中的一种解释。在科学中运作的非经验性美德在这样的理论选择决策中是公开的。后者作为认识论的试管，明确承诺科学知识应该是什么样的。
Duhem–Quine underdetermination plays a constructive role in epistemology by pinpointing the impact of non-empirical virtues or cognitive values on theory choice. Underdetermination thus contributes to illuminating the nature of scientific rationality. Scientists prefer and accept one account among empirical equivalent alternatives. The non-empirical virtues operating in science are laid open in such theory choice decisions. The latter act as an epistemological test tube in making explicit commitments to how scientific knowledge should be like.