TY - Generic T1 - Withstanding Tensions: Scientific Disagreement and Epistemic Tolerance Y1 - 2015 A1 - Straßer, Christian A1 - Šešelja, Dunja A1 - Wieland, Jan Willem ED - Ippoliti, Emiliano AB -

Many philosophers of science consider scientific disagreementto be a major promoter of scientific progress. However, we lack an ac-count of the epistemically and heuristically appropriate response scien-tists should have towards opposing positions in peer disagreements. Eventhough some scientific pluralists have advocated a notion of tolerance,the implications of this notion for one’s epistemic stance and, more gen-erally, for the scientific practice have been insuficiently explicated in theliterature. In this paper we explicate a characteristic tension in whichdisagreeing scientists are situated and on this basis we propose a notionof epistemic tolerance.

JA - Heuristic Reasoning T3 - Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics PB - Springer VL - 16 SP - 113–146 ER -