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Validating Animal Models

Author(s) -

Nina Atanasova

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

theoria an international journal for theory history and foundations of science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.2

H-Index - 15

eISSN - 2171-679X

pISSN - 0495-4548

DOI - 10.1387/theoria.12761

Subject(s) - thriving , psychology , reliability (semiconductor) , field (mathematics) , neuroscience , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , psychotherapist , power (physics) , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics

In this paper, I respond to the challenge raised against contemporary experimental neurobiology according to which the field is in a state of crisis because of the multiple experimental protocols employed in different laboratories and strengthening their reliability that presumably preclude the validity of neurobiological knowledge. I provide an alternative account of experimentation in neurobiology which makes sense of its experimental practices. I argue that maintaining a multiplicity of experimental protocols and strengthening their reliability are well justified and they foster rather than preclude the validity of neurobiological knowledge. Thus, their presence indicates thriving rather than crisis of experimental neurobiology.

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