Crisis, replicability, and reliability in modern science
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This is a short essay on the meaning of the replication crisis. It was accepted as a paper for APPSA 2025 and LMPST Taiwan 2025. Unfortunately I was not able to attend; so I have expanded the paper and published it here. It addresses the following: What is replication? The views of classic philosophers of science about replication The idea of a crisis in scienceIs there a replication crisis? Reliability - widening the discussion about replication.The focus is on philosophy of science. That is, it is about the special status of scientific knowledge. TLDR, I argue that from a philosophical perspective the replication crisis is the reassertion of a broadly Popperian caricature of scientific method as value free enquiry; and that more recent philosophy of science, seen in the work of Nancy Cartwright, offers a more promising account of the role of replication in science.
