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Social Construction and Natural Science: A Philosophical Exploration

Dive into Kareem Khalifa's insights at Middlebury College on the intersection of social construction and natural science, examining concepts like contingency, convergence objections, nominalism, and explanations of stability. Explore Hacking's central points and unique responses to objections within the field.

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Social Construction and Natural Science: A Philosophical Exploration

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  1. Social construction, natural science Kareem Khalifa Philosophy Department Middlebury College

  2. Overview • Hacking’s Central Point • Contingency • Convergence Objection • Nominalism • Explanations of stability

  3. I. Hacking’s Central Point

  4. II. Contingency • Constructing quarks • No Predetermination • “Alien Science”

  5. A less technical example ofII.C.3.a • Fido is a dog. • All dogs are mammals. • All mammals are warm-blooded. • So Fido is warm-blooded • Fido is an organism that never changes color when we aliens see him. • All organisms that never change color when we aliens see them are warm-blooded. • So Fido is warm-blooded.

  6. III. Convergence Objection • The Objection • Hacking’s Response • Small-Scale • Big-Scale • Unique-Ultimate

  7. IV. Nominalism • What is it? • Critics of constructionism

  8. Inherent-structurism Nominalism Tree Research Program A Research Program B Organic cone

  9. V. Explanations of stability • Stability • The Debate

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