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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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Realism: Philosophical and Scientific
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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Non-defensible middle ground for experimental realism: Why we are justified to believe in colored quarks [PDF]
, 2004 Experimental realism aims at striking a middle ground between scientific realism and anti-realism, between the success of experimental physics it would explain and the realism about scientific theories it would supplant. This middle ground reinstates the
Massimi, M
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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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The Anti-Induction for Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2018 In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are regarded as the strongest arguments for and against scientific realism, respectively. In this paper, I construct a new argument for scientific realism which
Park, Seungbae
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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]
, 2017 Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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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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Models, Brains, and Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2006 Prediction Error Minimization theory (PEM) is one of the most promising attempts to model perception in current science of mind, and it has recently been advocated by some prominent philosophers as Andy Clark and Jakob Hohwy. Briefly, PEM maintains that “
Sterpetti, Fabio
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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]
, 2017 Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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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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