What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias? The evidential account
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Author
Language
English
Abstract
Biased research occurs frequently in the sciences. In this paper, I will focus on one particular kind of biased research: research that is subject to sponsorship bias. I will address the following epistemological question: what precisely is epistemically wrong (that is, unjustified) with biased research of this kind? I will defend the evidential account of epistemic wrongness: that is, research affected by sponsorship bias is epistemically wrong if and only if the researchers in question make false claims about the (degree of) evidential support of some hypothesis H by data E. I will argue that the evidential account captures the epistemic wrongness of three paradigmatic types of sponsorship bias.
Publication Title
Publication Year
2020
Publication Date
2020-03-07
Journal abreviation
Euro Jnl Phil Sci
Source
Springer Link
License
ISSN
1879-4920
Physical Description
vol. 10, n. 2, pp. 15
Short Title
What is epistemically wrong with research affected by sponsorship bias?