id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
work_e5z2dpnoyrdylgsx7str4rfgdq	Jesús P. Zamora Bonilla	Scientific Inference And The Pursuit Of Fame: A Contractarian Approach*	2002	24	.pdf	application/pdf	10979	652	61	According to this contractarian approach, both the explanation and the justification of scientific norms only need to refer to the preferences Stated differently, the scientists' decisions about what statements to accept must be subjected to some recognisible patterns, for if no such patterns existed at all, no 'merit-seeking' an empirical fact about scientific research that countless statements (abstract theories, general hypotheses, experimental laws, and so on) are actually accepted by scientists, and it seems reasonable to try to explain why In the next section I will present the fundamental ideas of this contractarian approach, and justify its relevance for the study of scientific norms. accept, such as their epistemic preferences or their estimations of the probability of getting a solution if certain norms are established. intuitively similar to some patterns of theory choice actually used in science) in order to understand why they might have been chosen by recognition seeking researchers.	./cache/work_e5z2dpnoyrdylgsx7str4rfgdq.pdf	./txt/work_e5z2dpnoyrdylgsx7str4rfgdq.txt