TENSIONS REGARDING EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS
TENSIONS REGARDING EPISTEMIC CONCEPTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper argues that there is no logic of scientific discovery, but there is an inference-like pattern that we can model as a “logic,” retrospectively, once a discovery has been successfully made. While accepting a kind of epistemological pluralism and opportunism, the claim will be advocated that a convergent and reasonably wide-ranging normative “logic” might be constructed, one that might even work reasonably well in selected applications and might (therefore) also lead us to make congruent judgments of irrationality or illogicality wherever it seems not to yield the “normatively appropriate” outcomes in otherwise comparable specimen cases.

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