NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science, School of Economics and Business, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Aas, Norway.
Faculty of Health and Welfare, Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
Elife. 2019 Mar 13;8:e44929. doi: 10.7554/eLife.44929.
Scientists seek to eliminate all forms of bias from their research. However, all scientists also make assumptions of a non-empirical nature about topics such as causality, determinism and reductionism when conducting research. Here, we argue that since these 'philosophical biases' cannot be avoided, they need to be debated critically by scientists and philosophers of science.
科学家们试图消除其研究中的所有形式的偏见。然而,科学家在进行研究时,也会对因果关系、决定论和还原论等非经验性主题做出假设。在这里,我们认为,由于这些“哲学偏见”无法避免,因此需要由科学家和科学哲学家进行批判性地辩论。