Article: What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics.
Studies in history and philosophy of science
2024 Volume 104, Page(s) 88–97
Abstract: I identify and resolve an internal tension in Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE) - the normative account of science developed by Helen Longino. CCE includes two seemingly conflicting principles: on one hand, the cognitive goals of epistemic communities ...
Abstract | I identify and resolve an internal tension in Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE) - the normative account of science developed by Helen Longino. CCE includes two seemingly conflicting principles: on one hand, the cognitive goals of epistemic communities should be open to critical discussion (the openness of goals to criticism principle, OGC); on the other hand, criticism must be aligned with the cognitive goals of that community to count as "relevant" and thus require a response (the goal-relativity of response-requiring criticism principle, GRC). The co-existence of OGC and GRC enables one to draw both approving and condemning judgments about a situation in which an epistemic community ignores criticism against its goals. This tension results from conflating two contexts of argumentation that require different regulative standards. In the first-level scientific discussion, GRC is a reasonable principle but OGC is not; in the meta-level discussion about science, the reverse holds. In meta-level discussion, the relevance of criticism can be established by appealing to goals of science that are more general than the goals of a specific epistemic community. To illustrate my revision of CCE, I discuss why feminist economists' criticism of the narrowness of the goals pursued in mainstream economics is relevant criticism. |
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MeSH term(s) | Empiricism ; Feminism ; Motivation ; Existentialism ; Judgment |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-03-16 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 202358-1 |
ISSN | 1879-2510 ; 0039-3681 |
ISSN (online) | 1879-2510 |
ISSN | 0039-3681 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.shpsa.2024.02.005 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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