عنوان

Thin and Thinner:

شماره

LA122782

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Thin and Thinner:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Hypothesis-driven Research and the Study of Humans

نام نخستين پديدآور

Joseph Bulbulia, Marc Stewart Wilson, Chris G. Sibley, et al.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Some say that researchers who study humans are locked in to frameworks of epistemic assumptions from which there can be no escape. We explain, on the contrary, how researchers who disagree may nevertheless reconcile their differences. Freedom from the epistemic dungeon is made possible by practices that convert beliefs into testable hypotheses, which are then tested. Such practices are the engines of scientific progress. To clarify misunderstandings about practices of hypothesis testing, we discuss Bayes' rule, a mathematically perfect algebra for belief revision. To illustrate both the benefits and inevitable limitations of scientific research on religion, we work through the details of a recent national questionnaire study that revealed five different types of supernatural believers. Some say that researchers who study humans are locked in to frameworks of epistemic assumptions from which there can be no escape. We explain, on the contrary, how researchers who disagree may nevertheless reconcile their differences. Freedom from the epistemic dungeon is made possible by practices that convert beliefs into testable hypotheses, which are then tested. Such practices are the engines of scientific progress. To clarify misunderstandings about practices of hypothesis testing, we discuss Bayes' rule, a mathematically perfect algebra for belief revision. To illustrate both the benefits and inevitable limitations of scientific research on religion, we work through the details of a recent national questionnaire study that revealed five different types of supernatural believers.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

166-181

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

61/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

Bayes' rule

اصطلاح موضوعی

culture

اصطلاح موضوعی

reduction

اصطلاح موضوعی

religion

اصطلاح موضوعی

science

اصطلاح موضوعی

thick description

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Chris G. Sibley

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Joseph Bulbulia

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Marc Stewart Wilson

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341314

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y