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Chakravartty, A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Theoria, 2010 Valeriano Iranzo
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Realism: Philosophical and Scientific [PDF]
Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2020 What kind of realism - if any - are we allowed to endorse? It is often stated that, in order to provide realism with a solid foundation, we need having recourse to a reality that is totally independent of thought (and let alone of language).
Michele Marsonet
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Scientific Representation and Realism
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2011 Depois de uma breve apresentação do que considero ser a démarche representacional na ciência, enfatizo o papel fundamental, na construção de modelos, de juízos verdadeiros.
Michel Ghins
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Extensional scientific realism vs. intensional scientific realism [PDF]
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2016 Extensional scientific realism is the view that each believable scientific theory is supported by the unique first-order evidence for it and that if we want to believe that it is true, we should rely on its unique first-order evidence. In contrast, intensional scientific realism is the view that all believable scientific theories have a common feature ...
Park, Seungbae
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How to foster scientists’ creativity [PDF]
Creativity Studies, 2016 Scientific progress can be credited to creative scientists, who constantly ideate new theories and experiments. I explore how the three central positions in philosophy of science – scientific realism, scientific pessimism, and instrumentalism – are ...
Seungbae Park
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Realism, Instrumentalism, and Scientific Symbiosis: Psychological Theory as a Search for Truth and the Discovery of Solutions. [PDF]
, 2004 Scientific realism holds that scientific theories are approximations of universal truths about reality, whereas scientific instrumentalism posits that scientific theories are intellectual structures that provide adequate predictions of what is observed ...
John T. Cacioppo +2 more
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The Role of Existential Quantification in Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2017 Scientific realism holds that the terms in our scientific theories refer and that we should believe in their existence. This presupposes a certain understanding of quantification, namely that it is ontologically committing, which I challenge in this ...
Suki Finn
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Russell: the Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies, 1988 The entry on "realism" in Baldwin's Dictionary notes that the term has two significant but distinct meanings in philosophy. In the older sense, it is a "logicalmetaphysical" theory about the nature of universals and their relation to particulars. In the more modern sense, it is an "epistemological-metaphysical" theory which holds that "reality exists ...
Michael Bradie
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Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021 In this essay, we try to address a fundamental issue in the philosophy of science, namely the conflict between realism and antirealism in Quine's philosophy.
Amir Hajizadeh
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH
Problemos, 1998 The paper deals with the relation between realism and (neo)pragmatism in the contemporary philosophy of science by investigating two rival positions: Ilkka Niiniluoto’s "critical scientific realism" and Hilary Putnam’s "internal realism." The crucial ...
Sami Pihlström
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