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Scientific Representation and Realism
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2011 After a brief presentation of what I take to be the representational démarche in science, I stress the fundamental role of true judgements in model construction.
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 ...
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Realizm naukowy wobec zmiany teorii w nauce
Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2020 An important part of the contemporary dispute between scientific realism and anti-realism is an attempt to give a realistic interpretation to the historical facts of the theory change in science. According to L.
Janina Buczkowska
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Two Dogmas of Structural Realism. A Confirmation of a Philosophical Death Foretold
Crítica, 2019 Twenty years ago John Worrall offered an alleged non-standard viable form of scientific realism under the name structural realism. Structural realism was supposed to be both an alternative to standard scientific realism and viable form of realism.
Andrés Rivadulla
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HERMENEUTICAL ASPECT OF REFERENCE
Praxis Filosófica, 2011 Hermeneutical aspect of reference embraces a relation to reality in itsbroadest sense. This aspect of reference explains how some conceptsemployed in scientific theories and historical and fictional text, which areconsidered as “non-existant”, transform
Sanja Ivic
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Philosophy of Chemistry against Standard Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2015 In this paper, it is suggested that philosophy of chemistry can be seen as having quite a central role in the post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in general, and in analysing the scientificc realism vs anti-realism debate in standard philosophy of science,
Rein Vihalemm
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How to foster scientists’ creativity
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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Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2021 This paper considers and aims to advance the discussion on the reconciliation of scientific realism with the pessimistic induction argument. It presents a novel argument in favour of scientific realism based on the correspondence relationship between ...
Janina Buczkowska
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Creativity Studies, 2017 Individual realism asserts that our best scientific theories are (approximately) true. In contrast, selective realism asserts that only the stable posits of our best scientific theories are true.
Seungbae Park
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