Article ID: CBB001744393

What counts as relevant criticism? Longino's critical contextual empiricism and the feminist criticism of mainstream economics (2024)

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I identify and resolve an internal tension in Critical Contextual Empiricism (CCE) – the normative account of science developed by Helen Longino. CCE includes two seemingly conflicting principles: on one hand, the cognitive goals of epistemic communities should be open to critical discussion (the openness of goals to criticism principle, OGC); on the other hand, criticism must be aligned with the cognitive goals of that community to count as “relevant” and thus require a response (the goal-relativity of response-requiring criticism principle, GRC). The co-existence of OGC and GRC enables one to draw both approving and condemning judgments about a situation in which an epistemic community ignores criticism against its goals. This tension results from conflating two contexts of argumentation that require different regulative standards. In the first-level scientific discussion, GRC is a reasonable principle but OGC is not; in the meta-level discussion about science, the reverse holds. In meta-level discussion, the relevance of criticism can be established by appealing to goals of science that are more general than the goals of a specific epistemic community. To illustrate my revision of CCE, I discuss why feminist economists’ criticism of the narrowness of the goals pursued in mainstream economics is relevant criticism.

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Authors & Contributors
Ben-Chaim, Michael
Biard, Joël
Carus, A. W.
Demopoulos, Williams
Giglioni, Guido Maria
Grantham, Todd A.
Journals
HOPOS
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Biological Theory
Biology and Philosophy
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Publishers
Cornell University Press
Harvard University Press
J. Vrin
Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin
Routledge
State University of New York Press
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Theories of knowledge
Epistemology
Empiricism
Methodology of science; scientific method
Philosophy
People
Popper, Karl Raimund
Bacon, Francis, 1st Baron Verulam
Buridan, Jean
Carnap, Rudolf
Degérando, Joseph-Marie
Jaspers, Karl
Time Periods
20th century
17th century
21st century
16th century
18th century
19th century
Places
France
Indonesia
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