Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021)
This is a definition of Discipline Acceptance that states "A discipline is said to be accepted by an epistemic agent if that agent accepts the core questions specified in the discipline’s delineating theory as well as the delineating theory itself."
This definition of Discipline Acceptance was formulated by Paul Patton and Cyrus Al-Zayadi in 2021.1 It is currently accepted by Scientonomy community as the best available definition of the term.
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Scientonomic History
Acceptance Record
Community | Accepted From | Acceptance Indicators | Still Accepted | Accepted Until | Rejection Indicators |
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Scientonomy | 21 February 2024 | The definition became accepted as a result of the acceptance of the respective modification. | Yes |
Suggestions To Accept
Here are all the modifications where the acceptance of this definition has been suggested:
Modification | Community | Date Suggested | Summary | Date Assessed | Verdict | Verdict Rationale |
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Sciento-2021-0006 | Scientonomy | 1 August 2021 | Accept new definitions of subquestion, core question, core theory, discipline, delineating theory, subdiscipline, and discipline acceptance. | 21 February 2024 | Accepted | Prior to the 2024 workshop, Hakob Barseghyan commented on the encyclopedia indicating his support for accepting this modification and noted its potential to underpin further work on discipline dynamics. In fact, a significant amount of observational scientonomy work has been carried out in the past few years (including the paper on the rejection of alchemy by Friesen and Patton (2023),2 as well as some more recent papers) that presupposes the acceptance of these definitions, despite the fact that the modification containing them formally remains open. There was very little discussion about the modification, beyond raising points for the community to look forward to in the future, like a brief discussion between Jamie Shaw and Paul Patton about the need for more research on the difference between disciplines and disciplinary communities. The modification was accepted unanimously with 18 votes. |
Question Answered
Discipline Acceptance (Patton-Al-Zayadi-2021) is an attempt to answer the following question: What is discipline acceptance? How should it be defined?
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Description
disciplines like biology, physics, and astrology can be the subject of the epistemic stances of epistemic agents. For example, biology and physics are accepted by the scientific community of the modern world as disciplines, but astrology is rejected. In this definition, discipline acceptance is taken to be derivative of theory acceptance and question acceptance. A discipline is defined by a delineating theory, which identifies its core questions. For example, the question 'how do matter and energy behave?' is a core question of modern physics, and the question 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' is a core question of astrology. To accept a discipline, an epistemic agent must accept both the delineating theory that identifies a set of core questions constituting a discipline, and must accept those core questions themselves. The scientific community of the modern world accepts both the delineating theory that classifies 'how do matter and energy behave?' as a core question of physics, and accepts the question itself. The scientific community accepts the delineating theory that identifies 'how do the positions of the planets at the time of one's birth influence one's life prospects?' as a core question of astrology, but they do not accept the question itself, because they reject its supposition that there is such an influence. Thus, they reject the discipline of astrology.
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References
- ^ Patton, Paul and Al-Zayadi, Cyrus. (2021) Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology. Scientonomy 4, 59-85. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/37123.
- ^ Friesen, Izzy and Patton, Paul. (2023) Discipline Dynamics of Chymistry and Rejection of Alchemy. Scientonomy 5, 93-110. Retrieved from https://scientojournal.com/index.php/scientonomy/article/view/42268.