Descripción del proyecto
Un punto de vista novedoso en la filosofía de la ciencia llamada «realismo perspectivista»
El proyecto Perspectival Realism, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, articula un punto de vista homónimo en la filosofía de la ciencia mediante un método interdisciplinario, que combina la filosofía de la ciencia, la práctica científica, la historia de la ciencia y la historia de la filosofía. El perspectivismo científico ha atraído atención por explicar la naturaleza perspectivista de la modelización omnipresente en las ciencias físicas, biológicas y sociales. ¿Puede el conocimiento científico ser a la vez perspectivo y verdadero? ¿Puede el perspectivismo alinearse con el realismo? El resultado del proyecto será una posición filosófica histórica y científicamente fundamentada con el potencial de remodelar los debates sobre pluralismo, unificación y realismo.
Objetivo
This project develops a novel view in philosophy of science called perspectival realism, via a three-pronged highly interdisciplinary approach, which combines the philosophy of science, with scientific practice, the history of science and the history of philosophy. Scientific perspectivism has recently attracted a great deal of attention for its ability to account for the perspectival nature of modelling, pervasive in the physical sciences, the life sciences, and the social sciences. Can scientific knowledge be perspectival, and at the same time, true? Can perspectivism be made compatible with realism?
Four goals guide and structure the project:
(1) To offer a systematic investigation of how contemporary physicists deal with the perspectival nature of modelling, either by exploring innovative non-perspectival methods (in particle physics), or by devising ways of integrating different data sets and optmising their use for heuristic purposes (in observational cosmology).
(2) To examine, via salient historical case studies, to what extent scientific controversies and disagreement among scientists can be traced back to perspectival modelling, including measurement and experimental techniques.
(3) To re-assess the historical origins of perspectivism as a distinctive mode of scientific inquiry back to the Enlightenment, and in particular to Kant's 'Copernican Revolution'.
(4) To critically elaborate a metaphysics for perspectival realism that can ultimately answer the overarching question: 'Can perspectivism be made compatible with realism'?
The outcome is a scientifically and historically informed philosophical position, with the groundbreaking potential of advancing traditional debates about pluralism, unification, and realism in scientific research.
The project pursues these goals via an innovative methodology, in five sub-projects, bringing together physicists, historians of science and of philosophy, and philosophers of science, in an unprecedented way.
Ámbito científico
- humanitieshistory and archaeologyhistory
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyastrophysicsdark matter
- humanitiesphilosophy, ethics and religionphilosophymetaphysics
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyphysical cosmology
- natural sciencesphysical sciencestheoretical physicsparticle physicshiggs bosons
Programa(s)
Régimen de financiación
ERC-COG - Consolidator GrantInstitución de acogida
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
Reino Unido