The replication crisis and philosophy

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• Wesley Buckwalter (University of Manchester)
• Wednesday 13 November 2019, 13:00-14:30
• Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.

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The replication crisis is perceived by many as one of the most significant threats to the reliability of research in cognitive science. Though news of the replication crisis has been dominated by social psychology, all signs indicate that it likely extends to several other fields. This paper assesses the possibility that the crisis and related challenges extend to philosophy. According to one possibility, philosophy simply inherits a crisis by drawing on the same body of questionable evidence as in science. According to another possibility, a crisis is likely to extend to philosophy because philosophers engage in similar practices and structures as those implicated by the crisis in science. Proposals for improving philosophical research are offered in light of these possibilities.

This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.

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