Against external validity

Julian Reiss

59 citations0/0 files storedSynthese

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Philosophy and History of Science Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics Philosophy, Science, and History

Abstract

Francesco Guala once wrote that ‘The problem of extrapolation (or external validity as it is sometimes called) is a minor scandal in the philosophy of science’. This paper agrees with the statement, but for reasons different from Guala’s. The scandal is not, or not any longer, that the problem has been ignored in the philosophy of science. The scandal is that framing the problem as one of external validity encourages poor evidential reasoning. The aim of this paper is to propose an alternative—an alternative which constitutes much better evidential reasoning about target systems of interest, and which makes do without (much) consideration of external validity.

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 59 citations exist upstream.

References

1963Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research 2005Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 2005Why Most Published Research Findings Are False 2004Field Experiments 2004Making Things Happen 2003Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials 1957Factors relevant to the validity of experiments in social settings.2005The Methodology of Experimental Economics

Cited by

2021Abductive Theory Construction 2019Two Strands of Field Experiments in Economics: A Historical-Methodological Analysis 2021Experimental practices and objectivity in the social sciences: re-embedding construct validity in the internal–external validity distinction 2021Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions?2021Wishful Intelligibility, Black Boxes, and Epidemiological Explanation

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.