Discovery as Epistemological Anomaly
Ram Neta (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

part of: On Finding: From Epistemic Acts to Accepted Facts
March 17, 2026, 10:45am - 11:45am
Chair of Philosophy of Nature and Science, University of Bonn

U1.003
Heinrich-von-Kleist-Straße 22-28
Bonn 53113
Germany

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Epistemologists have devised various tools for modelling epistemically assessable conditions of various sorts.  In this talk, I argue that the phenomenon of discovery cannot be modeled using any of these tools.  If we want to understand what it is to discover something, we will need to expand our toolkit.

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