Giere’s instrumental Perspectivism

Perspectivism in Social Psychology

The Dialectic of Perspectivism, I

Nietzsche, throughout his writings, chides other philosophers for not placing their question marks at a deep enough place – for breaking off their inquiries prematurely, rather than pressing their questions all the way to the end, allowing themselves to discover where their questions, if pressed, might eventually lead1. In one of his posthumously published manuscripts, the following series of q...

Instrumental Desires , Instrumental Rationality

The requirements of instrumental rationality are often thought to be normative conditions on choice or intention, but this is a mistake. Instrumental rationality is best understood as a requirement of coherence on an agent's non-instrumental desires and means-end beliefs. Since only a subset of an agent's means-end beliefs concern possible actions, the connection with intention is thus more obl...

Federalism in science - complementarity vs perspectivism: Reply to Harré

Regarding the question of the unity of science, two stable and one unstable positions have been held. Reductive unitarianism and regionalism are the stable positions. According to the first, defended among others by Poincaré and by some, though not all, members of the Vienna circle, and their American disciples such as Nagel, nature being one, scientific knowledge can in principle achieve, and ...

Instrumental Analogy

The scalar mediation of the object through the space of representation ensures design methodologies based on similitude or procedural techniques must initially work upon appropriated forms. Given that translation ensures that these forms remain as a trace the architectural object is implicitly reliant on the application of analogy. While still bound to the act of drawing in, on or through the d...