Siberian Federal University 
- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2013 6 (7)
- Authors
- Nesteruk, Alexei V.
- Contact information
- Nesteruk, Alexei V.: University of Portsmouth, Lion Gate Building, PORTSMOUTH, PO1 3HF, UK; e-mail: alexei.nesteruk@port.ac.uk
- Keywords
- beliefs; cosmology; coherence; correspondence principle; epistemology; extrapolation; universe
- Abstract
In this paper we continue to study the epistemic nature of cosmological claims, in particular the status of the notion of the universe as a whole. It is demonstrated that this notion has a status of a construct with some epistemic links with empirical reality. However, it is argued that the effective methodology of contemporary mathematical cosmology related to the modelling of the very early stages of the evolutionary universes, consists not in the principle of correspondence of its theoretical constructs with empirical reality, but in the coherence of epistemic justification which relates to belief-like commitments of the community of cosmologists. As a case study, the inflationary model of the early universe is analysed and it is demonstrated that the coherence of justification leads to the transcendental problems in the style of Kant.
- Pages
- 957-100
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/9868
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