Laudan's Theory of Scientific Aims
I criticize Laudan's constraints on cognitive aims as presented in Science and Values. These constraints are axiological consistency and non-utopianism. I argue that (i) Laudan's prescription for non utopian aims is too restrictive because it excludes ideals and characterizes as irrational or non-rational numerous human contingencies. (ii) We aim to ideals because there is no cogent way to specify in advance what degree of deviation from an ideal is acceptable. Thus, one cannot dispense with ideals. (iii) Laudan does not distinguish difficult from impossible goals, making his injunction against utopianism imprecise. It is "semantically utopian" and, furthermore, a prescription for conservatism and mediocrity. (iv) Goals often contradict each other or are at least partially incompatible. Since Laudan does not say how to prioritize incompatible aims, axiological consistency is an utopian desideratum. Thus, his constraints on cognitive aims contradict one another. Finally, (v), Laudan's axiological constraints are too weak and in order to strengthen them, he must invoke without justification some implicit pre-philosophical cognitive aims. This opens the logical possibility of axiological relativism, which Laudan attempted from the beginning to avoid.
Laudan's Theory of Aims
In Science and Values, Laudan has developed the view that our scientific aims can sometimes be rationally selected by imposing two constraints (1) on them:
1. they should be jointly consistent,
2. a pragmatic constraint of empirical realizability, or non-utopianism. This last requisite follows from Laudan`s means-ends conception of rationality,
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(13) Since some axiological inconsistencies can be only pragmatic, it is not always clear whether some collection of ideals is mutually inconsistent.
(14) Cf., N. Rescher, The Strife of Systems, chapters 7 & 8.
(15) When this happens, our passionate nature will decide what our intellect cannot adequately settle.
(16) Laudancs meta-aim of axiological consistency is a goal suspect of being 'demonstrably utopian', because it is not likely that we will ever have a theory of rational value priorizations. So it is not reasonable by Laudan's meta-methodology own standards. If so, Laudan's theory would be suspect of being self-referentially inconsistent.
(17) Cf., Laudan, 1996, Beyond Positivism and Relativism, p. 16
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One of which was by Thomas Kuhn, who argued that accuracy, consistency, scope, simplicity, and fruitfulness are necessary epistemic values for selecting a rational theory (Kuhn 320-39). As such, a system of epistemic valuation requires value judgements within scientific method and reasoning (Kuhn 320-39). However, Rudner’s argument has also been the subject of criticism by the scientific community and particularly by Isaac Levi. Levi questions its fallibility to predict what will happen as Rudner claims that a scientist can assess a hypothesis only if they assign a probability to the hypothesis with respect to the evidence as a result of Rudner’s first and second premises (Levi 345-357). He notions the idea that value judgement does not occur in all sciences and “a person can meaningfully and consistently be said to accept a hypothesis as true without having a practical objective” (Levi 345-357). Levi argues that the value free ideal does not imply that a “scientist qua scientist makes no value judgments but that given his commitment to the canons of inference he need make no further value judgments in order to decide which hypotheses to accept and which to reject” (Levi
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Harman, G. (2000). Is there a single true morality?. Explaining value and other essays in moral philosophy (pp. 77-99). Oxford: Clarendon Press ;.
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