Improving the quality of case-based research in the philosophy of contemporary sciences

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Synthese 198 (10):9591-9610 (2020)
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This paper aims to address some methodological issues related to case-based research in the philosophy of contemporary sciences. We focus on the selection processes by which philosophers pick or generate a particular set of papers to conduct their case-based research. We illustrate how to use various quantitative and qualitative methods to improve the epistemic features of the selection processes, and help generate some potential case-based hypotheses for further philosophical investigation.

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10.1007/s11229-020-02657-5

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Karen Yan
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