Godfrey Guillaumin

My current research is in the field of the pragmatist philosophy of science. The research I conducted on the transformation of the astronomical measurement from Ptolemy to Kepler, and that was embodied in my book Génesis de la medición celeste (Genesis of the celestial measurement) (2016), allowed me to realize the importance of studying scientific measurement in terms of measurement practices . This is due to the ambiguity of the term "measurement", which refers to both the product and the process of making a measurement. Historicist philosophy of science, a field in which I trained and worked for years, does not have the analytical resources neither sufficient nor adequate to deal simultaneously with processes and their products; nor with questions about what, and why, makes a process reliable. I found that the best way to deal with it is the classic pragmatists: Charles Peirce, William James and John Dewey.
        The main project on which I am working contemplates showing how it is that fundamental themes of the philosophy of science such as scientific progress, underdetermination of theories, inconmmensurability and pessimistic inference are transformed when they are focused using tools of classical pragmatism, especially Peirce's and Dewey's.