Perception and observation unladened

Votsis, Ioannis

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“…distinct elements in the set of perceptual constructs are mapped to distinct elements in the set of stimuli, and hence reveals something about the structure of the stimuli. 27 This point has been known since Locke introduced the inverted spectrum argument-see Votsis (2015) for an in-depth analysis.…”

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“…The problem is utilised to argue against causal theories of reference, which, like Schurz's proposal, rely heavily on ostension. 22 Some of my thoughts on the matter can be found in Votsis (2015). 23 That's not to say, of course, that theoretical bias cannot be introduced in other ways, i.e.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Presumably these are the kinds of expressions that are likely to be found in all cultures. That some way to express assent and dissent exists in all natural languages is pretty uncontroversial in empirical linguistics-see, for example,Dryer (2005).12 An early version of this proposal can be found inVotsis (2015).…”

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Theory-ladenness: testing the ‘untestable’

Votsis

2018

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In this paper, I investigate two potential ways to experimentally test the thesis that observation is theory-laden. One is a proposal due to Schurz (J Gen Philos Sci 46:139-153, 2015) and the other my own. The two are compared and found to have some features in common. One such feature is that both proposals seek to create conditions that compel test subjects with diverse theoretical backgrounds to resort to bare (or at least as bare as possible) observational judgments. Thus, if judgments made under those conditions are convergent across test subjects, the said convergence would lend credibility to the view that theory-neutral observations are feasible. This still leaves the question of why any such convergence exists unanswered. Towards the end of the paper, it is argued that the best explanation for observational judgment convergence is the veridicality of those judgments.

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2018

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“…The first of these is the textbook premise that human observation, though subject to error, is reasonably reliable (Morris & Maisto, 2005). By this, we mean that regardless of the object or event being observed, the process of perceiving and interpreting the event is relatively fixed (Chakravartty, 2017;Psillos, 2005;Votsis, 2015). To assert otherwise would cast the entire body of scientific knowledge into doubt, nullify people's everyday experience of reality, and trap humans within an extreme philosophy of existential relativism.…”

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JSE 36:1 Spring 2022 Whole Issue PDF

Erickson

2022

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Aims and Scope: The Journal of Scientific Exploration is an Open Access journal, which publishes material consistent with the Society's mission: to provide a professional forum for critical discussion of topics that are for various reasons ignored or studied inadequately within mainstream science, and to promote improved understanding of social and intellectual factors that limit the scope of scientific inquiry. Topics of interest cover a wide spectrum, ranging from apparent anomalies in well-established disciplines to rogue phenomena that seem to belong to no established discipline, as well as philosophical issues about the connections among disciplines.

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“…A ideia da "impregnação teórica" da observação remete particularmente aos trabalhos de Hanson e Dretske da década de 1960 e ainda influencia, conquanto marginalmente, o debate sobre a observação em filosofia da ciência -como os recentes trabalhos de Ioannis Votsis (2015), entre outros, atestam. Como foi visto, os dois autores propuseram uma distinção entre uma maneira meramente mecânica, supostamente não-epistêmica, de observar, e uma que seria genuinamente epistêmica, na qual a bagagem conceitual do observador desempenha um papel crucial.…”

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O Empirismo Construtivo, a Distinção entre Observar e Observar Que e a Intencionalidade

Gava

2016

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RESUMO:No âmbito do empirismo construtivo, a célebre posição acerca dos objetivos da ciência de Bas van Fraassen, o ato de observar desempenha um papel crucial. Segundo Buekens e Muller defendem, em um artigo de 2012, o filósofo holandês deveria caracterizá-lo como um ato intencional, porque, na ciência, as observações são realizadas com um propósito. Nesta análise, que abordará também a distinção entre observar e observar que, introduzida por Hanson e Dretske, será mostrado que, ao contrário, considerações ligadas à intencionalidade do ato de observar são supérfluas para traçar a distinção entre entidades observáveis e inobserváveis da qual o empirismo construtivo depende. PALAVRAS-CHAVE:Van Fraassen. Observação. Observabilidade. Empirismo construtivo. Intencionalidade.

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Perception and observation unladened

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Theory-ladenness: testing the ‘untestable’

Theory-ladenness: testing the ‘untestable’

JSE 36:1 Spring 2022 Whole Issue PDF

O Empirismo Construtivo, a Distinção entre Observar e Observar Que e a Intencionalidade

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