Inconsistent scientific reasoning and the empirical world
Sprache des Vortragstitels:
Englisch
Original Tagungtitel:
Dealing with inconsistencies in Science
Sprache des Tagungstitel:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
I will argue that in the history of science, scientists sometimes reasoned based on inconsistencies (either in the premises of their arguments or in their theories). I will present a paraconsistent logic that can accommodate for this phenomenon in theoretic reasoning. By combining logic and scientific theories, philosophers and scientists aim at arriving at the best explanation of the empirical world. I will show that accepting a contradiction in scientific theory (and logic) does not necessarily commit us in the belief that the empirical world is actually contradictory.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Vortragstyp:
Eingeladener Vortrag an Universität
Vortragsdatum:
10.08.2023
Vortragsort:
Brasilien
Details zum Vortragsort:
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis