Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Mohammad Mahdi Sadr Forati ¹
• Gholam Hossein Moghadam Heidari ²

¹ M.A in Philosophy of Science, Amirkabir University

² Assistance Professor of Philosophy of Science Department, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies

Abstract

 
Allan Franklin is a contemporary physicist and philosopher who take some sort of extremist opinion about the experiments in physics and the position of social constructivism. Proposing a philosophical model, which we call ‘Pragmatist Rationality’, Franklin wants to defend of a kind of logic of scientific discovery and the possibility of crucial experiments occurring and through which He wants to rebut the contingency thesis which is a vital characteristic of social constructivism.
Although he denies that he is proposing a kind of theory of rationality, such theory is evident throughout his works. In this paper we review and evaluate his claims and are going to measure its soundness compared to the contemporary social constructivism theories.

Keywords

• Allan Franklin
• pragmatic rationality
• experiments in physics
• constructivism