The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Roth, Paul A.

doi:10.1016/j.shpsa.2013.08.001

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“…Recent research on social norms has been motivated by more practical concerns related to normative social institutions with respect to questions of public health [15], environmental issues [9,16,17], economics [18], or civil society [19,20]. Other concepts of social norms are used in numerous disciplines, ranging from philosophy (e.g., [21,22]) and law [23][24][25] to neuroscience [26][27][28] and artificial intelligence [29][30][31][32].…”

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The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms

Loughmiller-Cardinal¹,

Cardinal

2023

Societies

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Do social norms really matter, or are they just behavioral idiosyncrasies that become associated with a group? Social norms are generally considered as a collection of formal or informal rules, but where do these rules come from, and why do we follow them? The definition for social norm varies by field of study, and how norms are established and maintained remains substantially open to questions across the behavioral sciences. In reviewing the literature on social norms across multiple disciplines, we found that the common thread appears to be information. Here, we show that norms are not merely rules or strategies, but part of a more rudimentary social process for capturing and retaining information within a social network. We have found that the emergence of norms can be better explained as an efficient system of communicating, filtering, and preserving experiential information. By reconsidering social norms and institutions in terms of information, we show that they are not merely conventions that facilitate the coordination of social behavior. They are, instead, the objective of that social coordination and, potentially, of the evolutionary adaptation of sociality itself.

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The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms

Loughmiller-Cardinal¹,

Cardinal

2023

Societies

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“…Hempel's deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation to history is just too boring for neutrals to rake over and too embarrassing for scholars of logical empiricism to re-examine? 4 In any case, this would only be 1 See Roth (2013), (2016). It was not always so.…”

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Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science

Uebel¹

2017

HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History

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Philosophy of history and history of philosophy of science make for an interesting case of "mutual containment": the former is an object of inquiry for the latter and the latter is subject to the demands of the former. This paper discusses a seminal turn in past philosophy of history with an eye to the practice of historians of philosophy of science. The narrative turn by Danto and Mink represents both a liberation for historians and a new challenge to the objectivity of their findings. I will claim that good sense can be made of "working historical veins of possibility" (contrary to how the phrase was originally intended) and that already Danto and Mink provided materials (though they did not quite advertize them as such) to assuage fears of a constructivist free-for-all.

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“…So, one can attempt to synthesize them in a derivative conjecture about the end of the epoch and history of scientific revolutions since Fukuyama has meant the end of social revolutionary changes under the "end of history": a concept borrowed by him from Hegel and suggesting a rather Hegelian, dialectical "idea of history". In fact, Kuhn's "normal science", complemented by the condition to be permanent and "endless", "eternal", i.e., without those discontinuous periods of "paradigm change" metaphorically called 4 Many papers discuss Kuhn's conception relevantly to the present context (e.g., Kvasz 2014;Sismondo 2012;Wray 2012;Kindi 2005;Larvor 2003;Reisch, 2003;Chen, Andersen, Barker 1998;Corry 1993: Hoyningen-Huene 1993Keith, Zagacki 1992;Gernand, Reedy 1986;Moore 1980;Stanfield 1974;Shapere 1964); many others consider the conception of "scientific revolution" more or less creatively (by the by, including the present essay), but obviously inspired by his idea (as to the context here, e.g., Parrinder 2015;Kornmesser 2014;Roth 2013;Bland 2012;Kondratiuk, Siudem, Hołyst 2012;Wray 2012a;Barker 2011;Dorato 2008;2008a;Perla, Carifio;Barnet 2000;Dyson 1999;Kvasz 1999;Andersen 1998;La Cerra Kurzban 1995;Mayr 1994;Schipper 1988;Yalow 1986;Elguea 1985;Sterman 1985;Wieland 1985;Audretsch 1981;…”

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Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi novella “Profession” versus professionalism: Reflections on the (missing) scientific revolutions in the 21th century

Penchev

2023

SSRN Journal

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The silence of the norms: The missing historiography of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms

The Behavior of Information: A Reconsideration of Social Norms

Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy of Science

Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi novella “Profession” versus professionalism: Reflections on the (missing) scientific revolutions in the 21th century

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