Developing the ‘Styles Project’: Towards a ‘Theory of Styles of Reasoning’

Sciortino, Luca

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-24004-1_5

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“…Indeed, background theories, hypotheses, modelling of apparatus, data analyses and other items of knowledge are mutually adjusted to each other, as Hacking (1992a) has explained. Concerning the taxonomic style, it must be noted that, although it possesses the properties 1)...6) (Sciortino 2023a), it has a degree of family resemblance to the statistical style that is not as high as that of the other styles just mentioned. Indeed, new sentences about the hierarchical organization of living things are not true or false according to the new standards of naturalist historians in the Classical Age, but apt or inapt.…”

Section: Prototypesmentioning

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What is a Style of Reasoning?

Sciortino

2023

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In this paper I propose a solution to the crucial issue of the number of styles of reasoning. Ever since, in the 1980s, Ian Hacking outlined what he later called the ‘project of styles of scientific reasoning’, for short the ‘styles project’, he has never provided criteria for individuating styles of reasoning. Whether or not certain ways of thinking can be counted as styles of reasoning in the sense of Hacking is a question that has remained unanswered, despite its apparent relevance to various other controversial issues related to the styles project. I shall frame the issue within a view of categorization which begins with the later philosophy of Wittgenstein and culminates with the so-called theory of prototypes in psychological research. My conclusion will be that there is no clear boundary to the category of styles of reasoning and that degrees of category membership for a given way of thinking are determined by its degree of similarity to prototypes such as the statistical style of reasoning.

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Section: Prototypesmentioning

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What is a Style of Reasoning?

Sciortino

2023

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Developing the ‘Styles Project’: Towards a ‘Theory of Styles of Reasoning’

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What is a Style of Reasoning?

What is a Style of Reasoning?

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