Longino (2008)

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Longino, Helen. (2008) Norms and Naturalism: Comments on Miriam Solomon's Social Empiricism. Perspectives on Science 16 (3), 241-245.

Title Norms and Naturalism: Comments on Miriam Solomon's Social Empiricism
Resource Type journal article
Author(s) Helen Longino
Year 2008
Journal Perspectives on Science
Volume 16
Number 3
Pages 241-245

Abstract

Miriam Solomon's social empiricism is marked by emphasis on community level rationality in science and the refusal to impose a distinction between the epistemic and the non-epistemic character of factors (“decision vectors”) that incline scientists for or against a theory. While she attempts to derive some norms from the analysis of cases, her insistent naturalism undermines her effort to articulate norms for the (appropriate) distribution of decision vectors.