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Reading Godfrey-Smith’s (2006) The Strategy of model-based science. Similar to Weisberg (whose ‘Who is a modeler?’ I tweeted about yesterday), GS treats models and model-building as characteristic of one particular
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Live reading @IrisVanRooij and @giosuebaggio’s recent commentary “Theory development requires an epistemological sea change” on @EikoFried’s article on lack of theory building. They start by acknowledging the pluralism in theoretica
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Do you ever think about how communication works? I mean we all have different backgrounds, beliefs, knowledge, intentions; meaning is often so elusive that we even attribute different meanings to
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I want to highlight some non-mainstream work on reproducibility, open science, replication crisis, meta-science by women. Reading and drawing from a diverse set of authors and ideas will help push
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Apropos of same discussions over and over, I want to remind you all that we have three works showing why results of replication studies do not necessarily mean reality or
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The more I read about the history of science, the more I am convinced that scientific critique is not there to benefit the target but everyone else and the science.
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Started reading this book by Hasok Chang and I’m immediately drawn in: “It is neither desirable nor any longer effective to try bullying people into accepting the authority of science.
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