Μάθημα : Metaphysics and Epistemology
Κωδικός : PHS688
Brian McLoone - HPS Department (old building, Goudarouli seminar room) Monday 10.3 - 18.30 - 20.00
Dear all,
Tomorrow Monday 10/3, 18.30-20.00 (Goudarouli seminar room, old building of HPS Dept), Brian McLoone, professor of philosophy at Auburn University, will talk on 'Theory Choice in Science and Logic΄.
The event is co-organised by the Laboratory of Philosophy, Ethics, Policy and Communication for Science and Technology (HPS Dept) and the MA Program in Contemporary Philosophy/Philosophy of Science.
See below the abstract of the talk.
All welcome!
All best,
SI
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Αbstract: Anti-exceptionalism is the thesis that rational theory choice in logic is similar to rational theory choice in science; theory choice in logic is not "exceptional." Many proponents of anti-exceptionalism hold that abduction is the inference procedure that governs theory choice in both fields. We argue that abduction is in fact a poor model of how theory choice works in science, from which it follows trivially that it’s a poor model of how theory choice works across science and logic. But we also highlight a particular challenge that a plausible account of abduction faces as a model of theory choice in logic. This challenge emerges when one attempts to use the probability calculus to characterize evidential support for a classical or nonclassical logic. We expand on this point by presenting an argument for the claim that there could be no universal inference procedure across both science and logic. A logician can rationally prefer one logic over another, just as a scientist can rationally prefer one scientific theory over another. But there is not some single inference procedure that underlies theory choice in these fields.
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