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Methods and Question Relevance

Scientonomy
This paper examines a new epistemic relation in scientonomy – the relevance of one question to another. I argue that it is the employed methods that often render particular questions epistemically relevant to others by stipulating conditions under which
Gaby Fieschi-Rose
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Conditional Authority Delegation

Scientonomy
While the current scientonomic definition of authority delegation implicitly presupposes that epistemic agents accept expert judgments unconditionally, this assumption fails to capture a wide range of historical and contemporary epistemic practices. The
Paul Patton, Landon See, Carlin Henikoff
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Problems and Prospects with the Scientonomic Workflow

Scientonomy, 2019
While the scientonomic workflow guiding the development of a general theory of scientific change has been practiced for nearly four years, it has yet to be formally evaluated.
Jamie Shaw, Hakob Barseghyan
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Discussion of Suggested Modifications: Scientonomy Workshop, February 25, 2023

, 2023
The paper presents the transcript of the discussions during the first scientonomy workshop that took place on February 25, 2023. The participants discussed and voted on several modifications concerning the scientonomic workflow (Sciento-2019-0007 ...
Sarwar, Ameer, Allen, Joshua, Barseghyan, Hakob, Castino, Alessandra, Alliksaar, Markus, Palider, Kye, Rupik, Gregory, Friesen, Izzy, Garcia da S. Oliveira, Deivide, Ng, Tessa, Muscant, Rebecca, Patton, Paul, Shaw, Jamie, Atrli, Amirali, Borrie, Spenser, Shan, G. G.   +15 more
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Accepting Massive Problems: A Scientonomic History of Dark Matter

, 2023
This paper explores the process of the assessment and eventual acceptance of the existence of dark matter by the Western astronomy community in the period between 1930s and 1980s.
Castino, Alessandra
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A Diagrammatic Notation for Visualizing Epistemic Entities and Relations [PDF]

, 2021
This paper presents a diagrammatic notation for visualizing epistemic entities and relations. The notation was created during the Visualizing Worldviews project funded by the University of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute and has been further ...
Sarwar, Ameer, Shaw, Jamie, Barseghyan, Hakob, Levesley, Nichole, Rapson, Jessica, Palider, Kye, Doppelt, Torin, Zhang, Yifang, Patton, Paul, Zulfiqar, Amna, Da Silva, Julia   +10 more
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Disciplines in the Scientonomic Ontology

, 2021
The role of categories of knowledge, or disciplines, in science has not previously been explored in scientonomy. While disciplinary communities devoted to the production of knowledge are a modern phenomenon, the practice of dividing knowledge into ...
Cyrus Al-Zayadi, Paul Patton, Patton, Paul, Al-Zayadi, Cyrus   +3 more
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Epistemic Tools and Epistemic Agents in Scientonomy

, 2019
The only subtype of epistemic agent currently recognized within scientonomy is community. The place of both individuals and epistemic tools in the scientonomic ontology is yet to be clarified.
Patton, Paul E., Patton, Paul
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Scientific Error and Error Handling

, 2021
Error is a common part of scientific practice, which must be accounted for by scientonomy. A scientific error occurs when an agent accepts a theory that should not have been accepted given that agent’s employed method. One might suspect that the handling
Machado-Marques, Sarah, Patton, Paul
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A Method for Reconstructing the Medieval Arabic Scientific Mosaic

, 2017
There are good reasons to think that there was a body of truths generally accepted by the scientific community under Abbasid rule during the middle ages.
Fatigati, Michael
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