I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
The visualization in the contemporary sciences has renewed the relevance of a certain aspect of p... more The visualization in the contemporary sciences has renewed the relevance of a certain aspect of post-positivistic epistemology, namely the relation between fact and representation. The visual computational turn has altered the working conditions for various sciences. If theory in classic science was regarded as framing the facts, now the pictorial facts define the representation. The picture emerges seemingly regardless of any theoretical approach. Rather than pure theoretical competence, the interpretative experience is the preferred professional virtue. This paper addresses the question what conceptual resources post-positivistic analytic philosophy offers for an analysis of epistemic realism in visualized science. A suggestion is that W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the holism and underdetermination of theory might be helpful devices for analyzing the ontological aspects of scientific computational generated pictures. Quine's holism aims to hold for all branches of sciences including mathematics (W. V. Quine, 1992). Holism can be interpreted as the thesis that evidence rest on theories as wholes and not on individual parts of a theory. Hence, in general scientific pictures lack a secure empirical content taken in isolation from one another. But conjoined into series of pictures or corpus of pictures, the depictured phenomenon has an empirical content. Underdetermination can only obtain for complex theories, which are not empirically warranted. Taken together with the underdetermination thesis i.e. that observations alone do not determine theory; holism can be used for at the same time acknowledging a theory's fallibility and preserve a scientific realism (Bayer, 2007). In his last versions of the underdetermination thesis Quine asserted that it was a confusion to suppose that we can stand aloof and recognize alternative ontologies as true (W. V. Quine, 1975). Given a certain ontology an object exists; given another referential coordinate system the object doesn't exist. Ontological questions can only be raised and answered in relation to the chosen referential system that applies meaning to the phenomena. We can only speak about what exists and not exists, relative to a certain ontological versions of reality. Different versions can be equally correct, though we can' t use the descriptions simultaneously. Infinite regress can be avoided, if we accept the criteria in use are rationally acceptable. In molecular protein biology after the crystallization process is successfully done the measured density between electrons are modeled into pictures in order to grasp the where the atoms are sitting in the molecule (Brändén & Tooze, 2009).The next step is to apply another pictorial model, a structural model in order to find the specific shape of the protein molecule at display. During the visualization process the choices of colors work as explorative devices in order to find to the best final model that matches density and structure. The pictures are efficient and necessary tools on the way to find out the protein structure in the molecules. A conclusion is that the visual representation aims at shaping and strengthening the ontological realism by combining two depictured aspects of the molecule, the density-and the structural models. The series of visual pictures illustrate that several preliminary satisfactory visualizations exist, not a single one carries the full content. Some conclusions are 1) The visual representation has holistic connection to reality in the Quinean sense, though originally beyond our senses. 2) Scientific realism is still a valid position and hence the quest for objective truth within the chosen ontological system 3) Despite the pervasive computerization of scientific imaging, traditional concepts such as objectivity and realism are still valid connotations, however in new constellations. 4) Last, but not least, creating, practicing and analyzing scientific pictures require ontological competencies to serve the wanted epistemic goals.
I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
How many general histories can we have that are regarded as reliable, professional accounts of th... more How many general histories can we have that are regarded as reliable, professional accounts of the past? The history of know ledge has been both welcomed as a renewal and questioned as too vague and beyond definition. The latter argument is that know ledge without a specified subject can be interpreted as including everything from perceptions to practices, both in past and present. The claim of 'uncovering and explicating diverse forms of know ledge', it has been asserted, is not substantial enough to form its own discipline.1 However, given the view that history should be considered in the plural, light is glimpsed at the end of this blind alley. Until historicism's academic triumph in the mid nineteenth century, history writing was a flexible genre close to literature, in its descriptive form as well as content. History was considered in plural, not a singular, universal, progressive process. In the German language, history was originally in the plural form die Geschichten, but changed in the eighteenth century to be used as a collective singular. From then on, history acquired its modern shape, and with it the task to report what counted as historical reality. Despite intense scholarly discussions in recent decades, general academic history has neglected temporality, or more specifically how different experiences of time are historically shaped, viewing it as a problem for the philosophy or theory of history, and hence not of interest for the practising historian. Practices, materiality, mediality, and circulation have dominated the present theoretical discussion.
In 2019 the first neutrons will be fired at the ESS plant, at least to its present plan, located ... more In 2019 the first neutrons will be fired at the ESS plant, at least to its present plan, located in the outskirts of Lund, the brightest neutron facility in the world. In the scientists’ self-images, this kind of high technology and international cooperative knowledge production is entitled Big Science or Global Science. The concept “technoscience” isn’t used. This chapter will discuss if the concept technoscience makes aspects visible of 21st-century knowledge production that the other labels excludes. My claim is that it does, from two special vantage points, firstly, technoscience represents a new epistemological situation and secondly, a new attitude to social values, expressed in the quest for innovation and improved human conditions. These positions are associated with a new epoch, reflexive modernity or second modernity substituting the linear model of planning and institutional organization, which has for long been modernity’s hallmark. However one should discern this from a...
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I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
The visualization in the contemporary sciences has renewed the relevance of a certain aspect of p... more The visualization in the contemporary sciences has renewed the relevance of a certain aspect of post-positivistic epistemology, namely the relation between fact and representation. The visual computational turn has altered the working conditions for various sciences. If theory in classic science was regarded as framing the facts, now the pictorial facts define the representation. The picture emerges seemingly regardless of any theoretical approach. Rather than pure theoretical competence, the interpretative experience is the preferred professional virtue. This paper addresses the question what conceptual resources post-positivistic analytic philosophy offers for an analysis of epistemic realism in visualized science. A suggestion is that W. V. O. Quine's thesis about the holism and underdetermination of theory might be helpful devices for analyzing the ontological aspects of scientific computational generated pictures. Quine's holism aims to hold for all branches of sciences including mathematics (W. V. Quine, 1992). Holism can be interpreted as the thesis that evidence rest on theories as wholes and not on individual parts of a theory. Hence, in general scientific pictures lack a secure empirical content taken in isolation from one another. But conjoined into series of pictures or corpus of pictures, the depictured phenomenon has an empirical content. Underdetermination can only obtain for complex theories, which are not empirically warranted. Taken together with the underdetermination thesis i.e. that observations alone do not determine theory; holism can be used for at the same time acknowledging a theory's fallibility and preserve a scientific realism (Bayer, 2007). In his last versions of the underdetermination thesis Quine asserted that it was a confusion to suppose that we can stand aloof and recognize alternative ontologies as true (W. V. Quine, 1975). Given a certain ontology an object exists; given another referential coordinate system the object doesn't exist. Ontological questions can only be raised and answered in relation to the chosen referential system that applies meaning to the phenomena. We can only speak about what exists and not exists, relative to a certain ontological versions of reality. Different versions can be equally correct, though we can' t use the descriptions simultaneously. Infinite regress can be avoided, if we accept the criteria in use are rationally acceptable. In molecular protein biology after the crystallization process is successfully done the measured density between electrons are modeled into pictures in order to grasp the where the atoms are sitting in the molecule (Brändén & Tooze, 2009).The next step is to apply another pictorial model, a structural model in order to find the specific shape of the protein molecule at display. During the visualization process the choices of colors work as explorative devices in order to find to the best final model that matches density and structure. The pictures are efficient and necessary tools on the way to find out the protein structure in the molecules. A conclusion is that the visual representation aims at shaping and strengthening the ontological realism by combining two depictured aspects of the molecule, the density-and the structural models. The series of visual pictures illustrate that several preliminary satisfactory visualizations exist, not a single one carries the full content. Some conclusions are 1) The visual representation has holistic connection to reality in the Quinean sense, though originally beyond our senses. 2) Scientific realism is still a valid position and hence the quest for objective truth within the chosen ontological system 3) Despite the pervasive computerization of scientific imaging, traditional concepts such as objectivity and realism are still valid connotations, however in new constellations. 4) Last, but not least, creating, practicing and analyzing scientific pictures require ontological competencies to serve the wanted epistemic goals.
I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
How many general histories can we have that are regarded as reliable, professional accounts of th... more How many general histories can we have that are regarded as reliable, professional accounts of the past? The history of know ledge has been both welcomed as a renewal and questioned as too vague and beyond definition. The latter argument is that know ledge without a specified subject can be interpreted as including everything from perceptions to practices, both in past and present. The claim of 'uncovering and explicating diverse forms of know ledge', it has been asserted, is not substantial enough to form its own discipline.1 However, given the view that history should be considered in the plural, light is glimpsed at the end of this blind alley. Until historicism's academic triumph in the mid nineteenth century, history writing was a flexible genre close to literature, in its descriptive form as well as content. History was considered in plural, not a singular, universal, progressive process. In the German language, history was originally in the plural form die Geschichten, but changed in the eighteenth century to be used as a collective singular. From then on, history acquired its modern shape, and with it the task to report what counted as historical reality. Despite intense scholarly discussions in recent decades, general academic history has neglected temporality, or more specifically how different experiences of time are historically shaped, viewing it as a problem for the philosophy or theory of history, and hence not of interest for the practising historian. Practices, materiality, mediality, and circulation have dominated the present theoretical discussion.
In 2019 the first neutrons will be fired at the ESS plant, at least to its present plan, located ... more In 2019 the first neutrons will be fired at the ESS plant, at least to its present plan, located in the outskirts of Lund, the brightest neutron facility in the world. In the scientists’ self-images, this kind of high technology and international cooperative knowledge production is entitled Big Science or Global Science. The concept “technoscience” isn’t used. This chapter will discuss if the concept technoscience makes aspects visible of 21st-century knowledge production that the other labels excludes. My claim is that it does, from two special vantage points, firstly, technoscience represents a new epistemological situation and secondly, a new attitude to social values, expressed in the quest for innovation and improved human conditions. These positions are associated with a new epoch, reflexive modernity or second modernity substituting the linear model of planning and institutional organization, which has for long been modernity’s hallmark. However one should discern this from a...
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I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fa... more I en omdiskuterad artikel från 2004 hävdar Jerry Fodor att numera läser ingen filosofi utanför fackkretsarna, särskilt inte anglosaxisk filosofi. Däremot är den kontinentala filosofin i en bättre situation. Foucault, Habermas, Husserl, Kierkegaard och Sartre finns på bokhandelns hyllor, men inte Fodors egna böcker. Efter att ha läst en bok om Saul Kripkes filosofi säger sig Fodor förstå sakernas tillstånd. Efterkrigsfilosofin har i alltför hög grad utmärkts av formalistisk begreppsanalys, som paketerat om verkligheten i abstrakta teoretiska propositioner, vilket representerat en idealiserad bild av naturvetenskapernas praxis. Att efterkrigstidens analytiska filosofi kännetecknats av en högt driven teknisk formalism-ofta uttryckt i logikens språk 1 , och samtidigt hävdat empirins primat, vilket gynnat den s.k. kontinentala filosofin, är i stort sett en etablerad och sällan ifrågasatt historieskrivning.2 I denna artikel vill jag försöka teckna konturerna av en kompletterande historieskrivning, nämligen hur den analytiska vetenskapsteorin delegitimerats inifrån disciplinen själv. En väsentlig drivkraft var ett vetenskapsetiskt normativt ideal; en god teori skulle spegla praxis 66
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