“Normative” concerns guide the “descriptive” inquiries we choose to undertake, and provide a criteria for what counts as a “successful” inquiry or experiment.
Normative concerns guide which inquiries we choose to undertake but they do not (or should not) affect the outcome of these inquiries.
Notably, the normative concerns do NOT provide criteria for success. The cases where such has been attempted—e.g. Lysenko and genetics in Soviet Russia—are universally recognized as failures. Richard Feynman had a lotto say about this.
These are not trivial concerns
By which criteria do you divide concerns into “trivial” and not?
Normative concerns guide which inquiries we choose to undertake but they do not (or should not) affect the outcome of these inquiries.
But they also guide what counts as success. If your biology research is aimed at developing new bioweapons, then stumbling upon a cure for cancer does not count as a success.
Normative concerns guide which inquiries we choose to undertake but they do not (or should not) affect the outcome of these inquiries.
Notably, the normative concerns do NOT provide criteria for success. The cases where such has been attempted—e.g. Lysenko and genetics in Soviet Russia—are universally recognized as failures. Richard Feynman had a lot to say about this.
By which criteria do you divide concerns into “trivial” and not?
But they also guide what counts as success. If your biology research is aimed at developing new bioweapons, then stumbling upon a cure for cancer does not count as a success.