Article ID: CBB001320797

Concept Formation and Scientific Objectivity: Weyl's Turn against Husserl (2013)

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The idea that scientific objectivity requires a method of concept formation according to which concepts are freely created by the mind was famously propagated by Hermann Weyl. I argue that this idea, which he saw as essentially characterizing what physicists do when they do physics, led him to abandon the phenomenological view on objectivity, more particularly the strong connection between objectivity and evidence (understood in a Husserlian sense as a satisfaction of meaning intentions). The free creation of concepts, that is ultimately their introduction via Hilbert-style axiomatizations, is at the heart of Weyl's account of scientific objectivity, for it allows the introduction of hypothetical elements, without which, on his view, objectivity collapses (at best) into mere intersubjectivity.

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Authors & Contributors
Waidner, Isabel
Radin Dardashti
Parsons, Keith M.
Zittel, Claus
Webster, W. R.
Uus, Undo
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Objectivity
Subjectivity
Physics
Methodology of science; scientific method
Explanation; hypotheses; theories
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
17th century
Places
Europe
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