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Epistemic Structural Realism and Poincaré’s Philosophy of Science [PDF]
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2017 Recent discussions of structuralist approaches to scientific theories have stemmed primarily from Worrall's (1989), in which he defends a position (since characterized `epistemic structural realism') whose historical roots he attributes to Poincare. In the renewed debate inspired by Worrall, it is thus not uncommon to find Poincare's name associated ...
Katherine Brading, Elise Crull
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Critiques of Axiological Realism and Surrealism [PDF]
, 2020 Lyons’s (2003, 2018) axiological realism holds that science pursues true theories. I object that despite its name, it is a variant of scientific antirealism, and is susceptible to all the problems with scientific antirealism.
Park, Seungbae
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Localism vs. Individualism for the Scientific Realism Debate [PDF]
, 2019 Localism is the view that the unit of evaluation in the scientific realism debate is a single scientific discipline, sub-discipline, or claim, whereas individualism is the view that the unit of evaluation is a single scientific theory.
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The World Is Either Digital or Analogue [PDF]
, 2014 Peer ...
Berto, Francesco, Tagliabue, Jacopo
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Deliberative Indispensability and Epistemic Justification [PDF]
, 2015 Many of us care about the existence of ethical facts because such facts appear crucial to making sense of our practical lives. On one tempting line of thought, this idea does more than raise the metaethical stakes: it can also play a central role in ...
McPherson, Tristram
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Variance Theses in Ontology and Metaethics [PDF]
, 2020 The chapter illustrates conceptual engineering by bringing up a number of issues in metaontology and metaethics. A prominent debate in metaontology relates to whether some existence concept is metaphysically privileged.
Eklund, Matti
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The Pessimistic Induction and the Golden Rule [PDF]
, 2018 Nickles (2017) advocates scientific antirealism by appealing to the pessimistic induction over scientific theories, the illusion hypothesis (Quoidbach, Gilbert, and Wilson, 2013), and Darwin’s evolutionary theory.
Park, Seungbae
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In Defense of Realism and Selectivism from Lyons’s Objections [PDF]
, 2019 Lyons (2016, 2017, 2018) formulates Laudan’s (1981) historical objection to scientific realism as a modus tollens. I present a better formulation of Laudan’s objection, and then argue that Lyons’s formulation is supererogatory.
Park, Seungbae
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Peirce and Sellars on Nonconceptual Content [PDF]
, 2018 Whereas Charles Peirce’s pragmatist account of truth has been much discussed, his theory of perception still offers a rich mine of insights. Peirce presented a ‘two-ply’ view of perception, which combines an entirely precognitive ‘percept’ with a ...
Legg, Catherine
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Epistemic structural realism, modality and laws of nature
THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 2018 According to epistemic structural realism (EER) scientific theories provide us only with knowledge about the structure of the unobservable world, but not about its nature. The most significant objection that this posi- tion has faced is the so-called Newman’s problem. In this paper I offer an alternative objection to EER.
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