Worldmaking as an Approach to Scientific Pluralism

Nicole Fišerová
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This study discusses the extent to which Goodman’s constructivist conception of worldmaking may serve the needs of scientific practice. I argue that worldmaking should help us retain a common methodological order and a basic framework for scientific pluralism. In this way it should provide us not only with better scientific knowledge but also with a greater understanding of the world in general that would be inclusive of both scientific and nonscientific disciplines. The main purpose of this paper is to show that, if revisited, Goodman’s idea of versions, including even mutually exclusive scientific theories, can aid the gradual progress of pluralistic science. Taking the prevailing criticism of Goodman’s conception into account, I argue that worldmaking can serve as a methodological apparatus for scientific disciplines because it presents a position of moderated constructivism which, thanks to the variable criterion of rightness, offers a way to maintain both relativism and skepticism.
世界建构:科学多元主义的途径
本研究探讨古德曼的建构主义世界观在多大程度上服务于科学实践的需要。我认为世界的形成应该帮助我们保留一个共同的方法论秩序和一个科学多元主义的基本框架。通过这种方式,它不仅应该为我们提供更好的科学知识,而且还应该为我们提供对整个世界的更好的理解,这将包括科学和非科学学科。本文的主要目的是表明,如果重新审视古德曼的版本思想,甚至包括相互排斥的科学理论,可以帮助多元科学的逐步进步。考虑到对古德曼概念的普遍批评,我认为世界建构可以作为科学学科的方法论工具,因为它提出了一种温和的建构主义立场,由于正确的可变标准,它提供了一种维持相对主义和怀疑主义的方法。
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