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SUMMARY:Anomalies: Disruption and Source of Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:In the philosophy of science, “anomalies” are understood as stu
 bborn conflicts between what is expected against the background of establis
 hed theories and what is actually observed. Anomalies can become fundamenta
 l challenges for the established body of knowledge – and, in fact, they oft
 en have. They have therefore played a crucial role for the revolutions with
 in the empirical sciences. Famous examples are the so-called ultraviolet ca
 tastrophe, the anomalous advance of Mercury’s perihelion, or – to take an e
 xample from outside of physics – the anomalies of decision theory. The conf
 licts they cause can often only be solved after many fruitless attempts – w
 hich can take decades. Their impact is due to the fact that in order to arr
 ive at the solution, serious alterations of the traditional body of theorie
 s might be required, or even the abandonment of entire theories.\n\nAs the 
 examples above illustrate, the concept of an “anomaly” is primarily related
  to conceptions from the empirical sciences. One of the main ideas behind t
 he symposium is, however, that there are also phenomena in normative concep
 tions that show far-ranging parallels to anomalies in descriptive-empirical
  theories – but there has been much less thorough research on those phenome
 na. These are particularly stubborn conflicts between the implications of n
 ormative (ethical, legal, decision-theoretical, etc.) conceptions and basic
  moral or other value judgements.\n\n Given this background, the conference
  has several aims. First, we want to analyze the role of anomalies in descr
 iptive theories in the light of new questions and approaches (including Bay
 esian confirmation theory and so-called frames). Second, we will review the
 se analyses with the help of case studies from the history of science and p
 hilosophy. Third, we will analyze anomalies in normative – especially ethic
 al, legal, and decision-theoretical – conceptions. At the same time, we wan
 t to see if we can learn something about the role of anomalies in normative
  conceptions from the – far better understood – anomalies in descriptive th
 eories.\n\nImage: dottedyeti/ Adobe Stock\n\nWeitere Informationen\n\nDie V
 eranstaltung richtet sich an alle interessierten Personen, Wissenschaftleri
 nnen und Wissenschaftler sowie Studierende. Der Eintritt ist frei, eine Anm
 eldung erforderlich.\n\nDie Anmeldung ist geschlossen.\n\nKontakt\n\nLena D
 iekmannAssistentin der Abteilung Wissenschaft - Politik - GesellschaftTel.:
  0345 - 47 239 - 870E-Mail: lena.diekmann@leopoldina.org
LOCATION:Halle (Saale)
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