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SUMMARY:Scientific discovery and Wittgenstein's hinges - Minwoo Seo (Depar
 tment of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Vashka dos Remedios
DESCRIPTION:Scientific discovery has been abandoned for a while by philoso
 phers of science\, as they have deemed any discovery story as only subject
  to empirical studies based on their analytical context distinction betwee
 n discovery and justification. Recently\, sociologists and their allied hi
 storians of science have advocated the retrospective\, attributional model
  of scientific discovery\, attacking the normative\, philosophical context
  distinction and implicit\, underlying naive scientific realism. Here this
  paper aims to make three cases by drawing on Wittgenstein's discussions o
 n hinge propositions: first\, to show there are important aspects of scien
 tific discovery which deserve careful philosophical scrutiny\; second\, to
  suggest a way out of futile debates between scientific realism and anti-r
 ealism around scientific discovery\; third\, to show there is another type
  of historiographical confusion regarding scientific discovery stories\, a
 nd to propose a way of it.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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