Replication, Uncertainty and Progress in Comparative Cognition

Replications are often taken to play both epistemic and demarcating roles in science: they provide evidence about the reliability of fields’ methods and, by extension, which fields “count” as scientific. I argue that, a field characterized high degree theoretical openness uncertainty, like comparative cognition, replications do not sit well these roles. Like other experiments conducted under conditions equivocal open interpretation. As result, poorly placed deliver clear judgments cognition’s or its scientific bona fides. suggest that this should encourage us take broader view nature progress role replication cognition.