[ExI] Can philosophers produce scientific knowledge?

[Brent Allsop]

I've always considered the difference between scientific and philosophical
claims to be experimental falsifiability.
Is that not right?



On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 10:30 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/18972/1/Pradeu-Lemoine-Khelfaoui-Gingras_Philosophy%20in%20Science_Online%20version.pdf
>
> Abstract:
>
> Most philosophers of science do philosophy ‘on’ science. By contrast,
> others do philosophy ‘in’ science (‘PinS’), i.e., they use philosophical
> tools to address scientific problems and to provide scientifically useful
> proposals. Here, we consider the evidence in favour of a trend of this
> nature. We proceed in two stages. First, we identify relevant authors and
> articles empirically with bibliometric tools, given that PinS would be
> likely to infiltrate science and thus to be published in scientific
> journals (‘intervention’), cited in scientific journals (‘visibility’) and
> sometimes recognized as a scientific result by scientists (‘contribution’).
> We show that many central figures in philosophy of science have been
> involved in PinS, and that some philosophers have even ‘specialized’ in
> this practice. Second, we propose a conceptual definition of PinS as a
> process involving three conditions (raising a scientific problem, using
> philosophical tools to address it, and making a scientific proposal), and
> we ask whether the articles identified at the first stage fulfil all these
> conditions. We show that PinS is a distinctive, quantitatively substantial
> trend within philosophy of science, demonstrating the existence of a
> methodological continuity from science to philosophy of science.
> ——————
> CHT William Gillis
>
> Haven’t finished the paper yet, but not really surprised.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
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