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Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Knowledge: Reply to Park [PDF]
, 2018 Dellsén has recently argued for an understanding-based account of scientific progress, the noetic account, according to which science makes cognitive progress precisely when it increases our understanding of some aspect of the world.
Dellsén, Finnur
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Does the way we do science foster discovery?
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2023 Freedom to explore the unknown is key to scientific discovery. Maximizing modern individualistic measures of scientific productivity like the number of citations and publications may impede the progress of science as a whole.
Nithin Sivadas, Nithin Sivadas
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Does Scientific Progress Consist in Increasing Knowledge or Understanding? [PDF]
, 2017 Bird argues that scientific progress consists in increasing knowledge. Dellsén objects that increasing knowledge is neither necessary nor sufficient for scientific progress, and argues that scientific progress rather consists in increasing understanding.
A Bird +18 more
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Progress in scientific visualization [PDF]
The Visual Computer, 2005 Visualization of observed data or simulation output is important to science and engineering. I have been particularly interested in visualizing 3-D structures, and report here my personal impressions on progress in the last 20 years in visualizing molecules, scalar fields, and vector fields and their associated flows.
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Evidence-based medicine and progress in the medical sciences [PDF]
, 2011 The question what scientific progress means for a particular domain such as medicine seems importantly different from the question what scientific progress is in general. While the latter question received ample treatment in the philosophical literature,
Ayob +15 more
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The Pitfalls of a Tool-based Science and the Promise of a Problem-focused Science
Journal of Methods and Measurement in the Social Sciences, 2011 Our present social sciences are at risk of losing sight of their primary purpose: the goal of reducing uncertainty. For years social scientists have drifted slowly toward the routine of employing of accepted methodological, conceptual, and analytical ...
Patrick E. McKnight +3 more
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Closed Theories, Falsificationism and Non-Cumulative Progress
Problemos, 2020 It is argued that scientific progress occurs not with the cumulative growth of knowledge or when theories get closer to the truth but with discovering new domains and new theories that fit these domains.
Svitlana Firsova +2 more
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, 2022 Abstract The preceding chapter argued that the aim of science is the production of scientific knowledge. This chapter argues for the corresponding claim about scientific progress: scientific progress is the accumulation of scientific knowledge.
Lightstone, Douglas Frank +1 more
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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]
, 2017 Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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General View of the Research Studies on World Viticulture In The Last Decade
Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi Tarim Bilimleri Dergisi, 2021 It is seen that research subjects are shaped especially under the effect of climate change and that practices that will minimize possible negative effects are examined.
Zeliha GÖKBAYRAK +2 more
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