Extend discussion of disagreement about replication success (#4)#35
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Extend the Hidden Moderator Account in the Discussion chapter with Sarisoy's (2025) argument: because experimental control is limited and possible moderators are vast, experts often cannot tell a genuine replication failure from a violated ceteris paribus assumption (a form of the experimenter's regress). Frame such disagreement as legitimate normative judgement rather than poor practice, and note that transparency about a replication's intended epistemic function (reliability / validity / generalisation) makes it more tractable. Add verified references.bib entry for Sarisoy (2025).
This was referenced Jun 28, 2026
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Closes #4.
Adds a paragraph to the Hidden Moderator Account section of the Discussion chapter drawing on Sarisoy (2025), Why We Disagree About the Success of Replications (J. Gen. Philos. Sci.).
What it adds
@sec-success-criteria).Why here: the section already gestures at irreducible uncertainty ("a single replication is never entirely conclusive"); this anchors that point in the literature and adds the epistemic-function framing, which was not previously covered.
Notes
references.bibentrySarisoy2025; DOI10.1007/s10838-024-09709-1verified against Crossref (vol 56(3), 307–324). Inserted alphabetically — trivially mergeable with the in-flight DOI-cleanup PR Verify DOIs across references.bib + clean up 3 entries (#25) #34.discussion.htmlto confirm the citation resolves inline and in the reference list; render artifacts underdocs/are left to CI, consistent with other content PRs.