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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Call for Papers: “The
Pursuitworthiness of Experiments
Across the Sciences”</span></b></p>
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EN-US" lang="EN-US">Topical Collection in the <i
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Journal for Philosophy of Science</i><b
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EN-US" lang="EN-US">Guest Editors: </span></span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Enno
Fischer (Institute
of Philosophy, TU Dresden) & Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda
(Centre for Logic
and Philosophy of Science, KU Leuven)<b
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115%;font-family:"Garamond",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Open for submissions:<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"> 1 November 2024 – 30 April 2025</b></span></p>
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style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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lang="EN-US">Originally
going back to Larry Laudan’s (1977) distinction between the </span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">context
of acceptance</span><span
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mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">and
the </span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">context
of pursuit,</span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">’ </span><span
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mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">the
concept of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">pursuitworthiness</i>
has garnered
considerable attention in the philosophy of science in recent
years. For
instance, philosophers have explored the different stances on
pursuitworthiness
adopted by towering figures in the field such as Thomas Kuhn and
Paul
Feyerabend (e.g., Šešelja & Straßer, 2013; Shaw, 2022), and
have advanced
and debated manifold epistemic criteria on what makes a
scientific idea or
proposal worthy of being undertaken (e.g., Achinstein, 1993;
Šešelja et al.,
2012; Šešelja & Straßer, 2014; Shan, 2020; DiMarco &
Khalifa, 2019,
Fleisher, 2022). The significance of this enlarging body of
scholarship
notwithstanding, philosophical reflections on the
pursuitworthiness of
scientific research have almost exclusively focused on theories,
(and to a
lesser extent on) models and research programmes <i
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normal">in toto </i>(e.g., Lichtenstein, 2021; Cabrera, 2021; Haueis
&
Kästner, 2022; Han, 2023; Fischer, 2024a; Wolf & Duerr,
2024), whereas
systematic and comprehensive reflection on the <i
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normal">pursuitworthiness of experiments</i> is hitherto lacking (but
see
Laymon & Franklin, 2022; DiMarco & Khalifa, 2022;
Fischer, 2024b). This
is an important and somewhat surprising lacuna because it is
often the
experiments, out of the many elements that make up scientific
practice, that
require large amounts of funding, deliberations, and long-term
planning. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-align:justify"><span
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lang="EN-US">For the
philosophy of science, delving into the pursuitworthiness of
experiments is
also particularly pressing given that since the years of
Laudan’s initial
proposal, the philosophy of experiment has re-established itself
as a central
element in the canon of the discipline (see, e.g., Hacking,
1983, 1988; Gooding
et al., 1989; Steinle, 2002; Radder, 2003; Weber, 2009; Feest
& Steinle,
2016; Bokulich & Bocchi, 2024). Philosophers of experiment
have
foregrounded many important considerations (e.g., material
cultures of
experimentation and the role of instruments, the importance of
tacit knowledge
in experimental manipulations, and how experiments affect
concept, model and
theory formation), but they have not inquired in detail about
the context of
pursuit of experiments in different scientific settings. In this
sense, the
topic of the pursuitworthiness of experiments lies at the
interface between two
salient, overarching problem spaces in the philosophy of
science.</span></p>
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style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
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lang="EN-US">The aim of this
topical collection is to put discussions of the
pursuitworthiness of
experiments on the agenda of general philosophy of science and
the philosophies
of the special sciences. It will bring together contributions
addressing
experiments across the sciences, from the physical and chemical
sciences to the
life, biomedical, and cognitive sciences, as well as the social
sciences. </span><span
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mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond"
lang="es">For more
details on possible topics and questions, references and
instructions for
submission see the full call for papers: </span></p>
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href="https://tu-dresden.de/gsw/phil/iphil/phisci/ressourcen/dateien/CfP_EJPS.pdf"
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Enno Fischer <br>
Juniorprofessur für Wissenschaftstheorie <br>
Technische Universität Dresden <br>
Zellescher Weg 17<br>
01069 Dresden<br>
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E-Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:enno.fischer@tu-dresden.de">enno.fischer@tu-dresden.de</a><br>
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