Heather Douglas
University of Waterloo
50 Papers
214 Citations
Heather Douglas is an academic researcher from University of Waterloo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Philosophy of science. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 36 publications. Previous affiliations of Heather Douglas include University of Puget Sound & University of Tennessee.
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Papers
Inductive Risk and Values in Science
TL;DR: Although epistemic values have become widely accepted as part of scientific reasoning, non-epistemic values are largely relegated to the "external" parts of science (the selection of hypothes... as mentioned in this paper.
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The Irreducible Complexity of Objectivity
TL;DR: Drawing on recent historical and philosophical work, I articulate eight operationally accessible and distinct senses of objectivity, arguing that none of the eight senses is strictly reducible to the others, giving objectivity itsreducible complexity.
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The Value of Cognitive Values
TL;DR: The authors argue that a finer-grained account of the value of cognitive values can help reduce the tensions between cognitive values and reduce the trade-off between them, by separating cognitive values into groups, minimal epistemic criteria, pragmatic considerations, and genuine epistemic assurance.
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Reintroducing Prediction to Explanation
TL;DR: It is suggested that explanation should be understood as a cognitive tool that assists us in generating new predictions and clarifies what makes an explanation scientific and why inference to the best explanation makes sense in science.
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