Author: Hastings, Thomas John; Sæther, Knut-Willy
Title: A Fallibilist Approach in the Age of COVID-19 and Climate Change Cord-id: w9yli9eb Document date: 2020_11_6
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Snippet: Against the global backdrop of the current pandemic and imminent reckoning on climate change, editors Thomas John Hastings and Knut-Willy Sæther call for a fallibilistic approach to academic inquiry in the sciences and the humanities. They show how fallibilism, as an epistemological approach that supports humility and positive actions, has family resemblances to John Polkinghorne’s “critical realism†and Andreas Losch’s “constructive critical realism.†To illustrate the consequences
Document: Against the global backdrop of the current pandemic and imminent reckoning on climate change, editors Thomas John Hastings and Knut-Willy Sæther call for a fallibilistic approach to academic inquiry in the sciences and the humanities. They show how fallibilism, as an epistemological approach that supports humility and positive actions, has family resemblances to John Polkinghorne’s “critical realism†and Andreas Losch’s “constructive critical realism.†To illustrate the consequences of a failure to acknowledge the limits of our knowledge and to act on those limits, they report on the case of a certain doctor and a certain president who have responded in radically different ways to the COVID-19 crisis.
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