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Scope of Scientonomy - Appraisal (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=The goal of [[scientonomy]] is to give a descriptive account of the process of [[Scientific Change|scientific change]]. Given this goal, it is obvious that it must describe and explain how changes in the [[Scientific Mosaic|mosaic]] of accepted scientific [[Theory|theories]] and employed [[Method|methods]] take place. Any actual instance of scientific change is the result of an appraisal. Therefore, a theory of scientific change ''must '' provide an account of how theories are actually appraised and thereby explain how changes in the mosaic occur. It is not, on On the other hand, it ''can'' but is ''not required '' to account for the process of theory construction. Scientific creativity and theory construction have typically been regarded as questions of psychology and sociology.[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 29]]
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)
|Prehistory=[[Hans Reichenbach]] is commonly considered to have been the first to draw the distinction between the context of discovery, which is a historical and creative process having to do with the construction of the theory, and the context of justification, which is the supposedly distinct logical enterprise of the defense and appraisal of a theory.[[CiteRef::Laudan (1980)]] The idea that the historical context of discovery can be clearly distinguished from the logical context of justification was questioned by [[Norwood Hanson|Hanson]], [[Thomas Kuhn|Kuhn]], and [[Paul Feyerabend|Feyerabend]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|p. 23]][[CiteRef::Feyerabend (1975a)|p. 149]]
