Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, editor, Interface administrators, Administrators (Semantic MediaWiki), Curators (Semantic MediaWiki), Suppressors, Administrators, Widget editors
11,019
edits
Changes
The Third Law (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
Revision as of 01:53, 15 June 2017
, 01:53, 15 June 2017no edit summary
|Prehistory=The basic idea of ''the third law'' is not new. A number of philosophers have suggested that our beliefs about the world shape how we engage with the world. Different versions of this idea can be found in the works of [[Thomas Kuhn]], [[Paul Feyerabend]], [[Dudley Shapere]], [[Larry Laudan]], and [[Ernan McMullin]].
Most noteworthy is [[Larry Laudan]]’s account of changes in drug trial methods. In his ''Science and Values'', Laudan argued that the discovery of previously unaccounted effects resulted in the formulation of new methods of drug testing.[[CiteRef::Laudan (19841984a)|pp. 38-39]] However, while Laudan’s account hints at aspects of ''the third law'', it ultimately conflates [[Method|methods]] and [[Methodology|methodologies]].[[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)|pp. 130-131]]
[[Ernan McMullin]]’s accounts of historical methods offer another example of a prototype of ''the third law''. McMullin showed how the hypothetico-deductive method came to replace the Aristotelian Medieval method in the 18th century. In his account, McMullin shows that the employment of the hypothetico-deductivism was a result of accepting that the world is more complex than it appears in our observations.[[CiteRef::McMullin (1988)|pp. 32-34]] These accounts demonstrate how our accepted theories impact our criteria of theory assessment.