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SUMMARY:Science and speculation - Adrian Currie (University of Exeter)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:Despite wide recognition that speculation is critical for succ
 essful science\, philosophers of science have attended little to it. When 
 they have\, speculation has been characterized in narrowly epistemic terms
 : a hypothesis is speculative due to its (lack of) evidential support. The
 se accounts provide little guidance to what makes speculation productive o
 r egregious\, and how to foster the former while avoiding the latter. I ex
 amine how scientists discuss speculation and identify various functions sp
 eculations play. On this basis\, I provide an account which starts with th
 e epistemic function of speculation. This analysis grounds a richer discus
 sion of when speculation is egregious and when it is productive\, based in
  both fine-grained analysis of the speculation's purpose\, and what I call
  the 'epistemic situation' scientists face.
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