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Scientific progress: Knowledge versus understanding.
- Finnur Dellsén
- Sociology, Medicine
- Studies in history and philosophy of science
- 1 April 2016
What is scientific progress? On Alexander Bird's epistemic account of scientific progress, an episode in science is progressive precisely when there is more scientific knowledge at the end of the… Expand
Scientific Progress, Understanding, and Knowledge: Reply to Park
- Finnur Dellsén
- Philosophy
- 28 May 2018
Dellsén (2016) has recently argued for an understanding-based account of scientific progress, the noetic account, according to which science (or a particular scientific discipline) makes cognitive… Expand
Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and History and Philosophy of Science
- J. Beebe, Finnur Dellsén
- Sociology
- Philosophy of Science
- 1 April 2020
We report the results of a study that investigated the views of researchers working in seven scientific disciplines and in history and philosophy of science in regard to four hypothesized dimensions… Expand
Promotion as contrastive increase in expected fit
- Nathaniel Sharadin, Finnur Dellsén
- Psychology
- 1 May 2019
What is required for an action to promote the satisfaction of a desire? We reject extant answers and propose an alternative. Our account differs from competing answers in two ways: first, it is… Expand
Realism and the absence of rivals
- Finnur Dellsén
- Philosophy, Computer Science
- Synthese
- 1 July 2017
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Understanding without Justification or Belief
- Finnur Dellsén
- Philosophy
- 1 September 2017
In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest among epistemologists in the nature of understanding, with some authors arguing that understanding should replace knowledge as the primary… Expand
The epistemic value of expert autonomy
- Finnur Dellsén
- Sociology
- 1 March 2020
According to an influential Enlightenment ideal, one shouldn't rely epistemically on other people's say-so, at least not if one is in a position to evaluate the relevant evidence for oneself.… Expand
Divergent Perspectives on Expert Disagreement: Preliminary Evidence from Climate Science, Climate Policy, Astrophysics, and Public Opinion
- J. Beebe, M. Baghramian, L. Drury, Finnur Dellsén
- Political Science, Physics
- 6 February 2018
ABSTRACT We report the results of an exploratory study that examines the judgments of climate scientists, climate policy experts, astrophysicists, and non-experts (N = 3367) about the factors that… Expand
Explanatory Rivals and the Ultimate Argument
- Finnur Dellsén
- Sociology
- 1 September 2016
Although many aspects of Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) have been extensively discussed, very little has so far been said about what it takes for a hypothesis to count as a rival explanatory… Expand
The heuristic conception of inference to the best explanation
- Finnur Dellsén
- Computer Science
- 1 July 2018
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