Multimodal evidence

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" Multimodal evidence "
Stegenga, Jacob

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	914118
Doc. No	:	TL2x54p2rw
Main Entry	:	Stegenga, Jacob
Title & Author	:	Multimodal evidence\ Stegenga, Jacob
College	:	UC San Diego
Date	:	2011
student score	:	2011
Abstract	:	We often have a variety of evidence available for a given hypothesis. For example, the efficacy of pharmaceuticals is studied with diverse experiments on animals, humans, and cells. I call evidence like this multimodal; a "mode" is a particular way of learning about the world: a technique, apparatus, or experiment. Philosophers have appealed to multimodal evidence to make robustness claims to advance various forms of scientific realism and to resist skeptical worries. The depth of such arguments, though, has advanced little since Whewell. What are the conditions under which such arguments are compelling? I raise methodological and epistemological arguments, and use examples from biology and medicine, to identify demanding constraints for successful appeals to multimodal evidence
Added Entry	:	UC San Diego