The topics of scientific progress and knowledge accumulation underlying the desirability of responding to research gaps

The topics of scientific progress and knowledge accumulation underlying the desirability of responding to research gaps

The following ideas from: Alexander Bird. n.d. "The epistemic approach: progress as the accumulation of knowledge" alexanderbird.org

"One compelling approach to the nature of scientific progress focuses on truth. The semantic approach says that scientific progress is the accumulation of scientific truth or that it is the increasing proximity of scientific theory to the truth…..

Science progresses when more problems are proposed and solved…

The epistemic view says that scientific progress requires an increase in scientific knowledge. It therefore requires that developments that contribute to progress have the epistemic justification characteristic of knowledge…

 The noetic approach says that scientific progress requires an increase in scientific understanding..”

To consider how to relate the topics to the research gap analysis

I have bolded the key concepts underlying the topics of scientific progress and knowledge accumulation. It is then up to the students (researchers) to think about how research gap analysis (as required by the agile literature review approach (the academic-oriented project type) contributes to the implicit underlying dissertation project goal of contributing to scientific progress.