Scientific Pluralism
David L. Hull,
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews,
May 09, 2008
The reviewer - David L. Hull - sketches a position that is quite similar to my own with respect to scientific pluralism. "The editors of this anthology ask whether or not consistency requires scientific pluralists to be pluralists in dealing with such philosophical concepts as theory, explanation, cause and probability. They answer, 'We think it does' ... Dickson remarks that a "multiplicity of dynamics is not necessarily a bad thing" (p. 57). Not necessarily a bad thing? It is not a bad thing at all. In fact, it is good... Waters remarks that scientists must be 'tolerant of diversity' (p. 210). Tolerant? Diversity deserves more than 'tolerance.'"
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