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In Chapter 1 we introduced four types of research programs: descriptive, explanatory, design and explicative research programs. So far the emphasis was on descriptive and explanatory programs. Moreover, several (groups of) chapters illustrated explicative programs in philosophy of science. Design research programs, however, only received a little attention in the previous chapter.
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Hence, RP should not be read as ‘research program’.
There may, of course, be properties of which we cannot seriously wish that they are present or absent. They can be left out of the picture. Hence, the set of relevant properties RP is the union of W and (RP — W)\ the latter respectively correspond to Q(T) and Q(Mp — T) in the previous chapter. From these correspondences it becomes also clear that the properties in this chapter are ‘distributed’ features in the sense of the previous chapter. For example, a property is (un-)desired if and only if it is (un-)desired for all realizations of the intended profile, or, in the terms of the previous chapter, if and only if all structures realizing the desired profile (do not) have the relevant property. In the context of design research, the distributed character of the relevant properties is more or less self-evident. This is a happy fact, for it functions as a safeguard against similar logical problems for the comparative definitions to be given in the next subsection as arose with Popper’s original definition of ’more truthlikeness’ (for an indication, see Subsection 9.1.2).
We leave it as an exercise to verify that the corresponding figure resembles Figure 9.3 of the previous chapter.
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Kuipers, T.A.F. (2001). Design Research Programs. In: Structures in Science. Synthese Library, vol 301. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9739-5_10
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