Evaluation on the procedural level: alternative approaches

Jonas G. Lipski ()

Chapter 3 in Evaluating Competing Explanatory Games in Economics, 2025, pp 71-108 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: I analyze the historically most influential approaches towards evaluating science on the level of procedural rules, specifically those by Kuhn, Feyerabend, Lakatos, Laudan, and Kitcher. I demonstrate that these theories mainly rest upon mistaken assumptions on the descriptive level, which also lead to mistaken approaches on the normative level. Laudan's reticulated model does showcase some advantages over Mantzavinos's normative approach. I modify Mantzavinos's approach accordingly.

Keywords: Explanatory Games; Paradigms; Scientific Research Programs; Philosophy of Science; Reticulated Model of Scientific Evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035357512
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