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Is the precautionary principle unscientific?

David B. Resnik

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 34 (2):329-344 (2003)

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A Pragmatic Approach To The Demarcation Problem.David B. Resnik - 2000 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 31 (2):249-267.details The question of how to distinguish between science and non-science, the so-called ‘demarcation problem’, is one of the most high-profile, perennial, and intractable issues in the philosophy of science. It is not merely a philosophical issue, however, since it has a significant bearing on practical policy questions and practical decisions. This essay develops a pragmatic approach to the demarcation problem: it argues that while there are some core principles that we can use in distinguishing between science and non-science, particular judgments (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 24 citations
The best explanation: Criteria for theory choice.Paul R. Thagard - 1978 - Journal of Philosophy 75 (2):76-92.details Download Export citation Bookmark 244 citations
Methodological conservatism and social epistemology.D. Resnik - 1994 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 8 (3):247 – 264.details This paper defends two principles of methodological conservatism on the grounds that they help to promote an effective social structure for a knowledge‐seeking community. Conservatism has some prima facie justification because it provides for an effective division of cognitive labor, it promotes the effective use of scientific resources, and it provides for a certain amount of stability. However, the principles I defend in this paper should not be treated as absolute or unconditional criteria of theory‐choice, since they can be overridden (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
Rationality and objectivity in science or Tom Kuhn meets Tom Bayes.Wesley Salmon - 1956 - In C. Wade Savage (ed.), Scientific Theories. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 14--175.details Download Export citation Bookmark 76 citations
Equipoise, Knowledge and Ethics in Clinical Research and Practice.Richard Ashcroft - 1999 - Bioethics 13 (3-4):314-326.details It is widely maintained that a clinical trial is ethical only if some form of equipoise between the treatments being compared obtains. To be in equipoise between two treatments A and B is to be cognitively indifferent between the statement ‘A is strictly more effective than B’ and its negation. It is natural to claim that equipoise regarding A and B is necessary for randomised assignment to treatments A and B to be beneficent and non‐maleficent and is sufficient for such (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 27 citations
Learning from the law to address uncertainty in the precautionary principle.Carl F. Cranor - 2001 - Science and Engineering Ethics 7 (3):313-326.details Environmentalists have advocated the Precautionary Principle (PP) to help guide public and private decisions about the environment. By contrast, industry and its spokesmen have opposed this. There is not one principle, but many that have been recommended for this purpose. Despite the attractiveness of a core idea in all versions of the principle—that decision-makers should take some precautionary steps to ensure that threats of serious and irreversible damage to the environment and public health do not materialize into harm—even one of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations

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