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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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Scientific Realism/Anti-Realism Debate: Roy Bhaskar’s Position [PDF]
Organon FThe debate between scientific realism and anti-realism has long revolved around scientific theories. Realists contend that scientific theories are true or approximately true.
Maryam Poostforush, Mostafa Taqavi
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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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Inconsistency and scientific realism [PDF]
Synthese, 2014 I erect a framework within the semantic view of theories for explaining the empirical success of internally inconsistent models and theories, with scientific realism in mind. The framework is an instance of the ‘content-driven’ approach to inconsistency, advocated by both Norton (1987) and Smith (1988), whose ideas my analysis aims to clarify and ...
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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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A.I., Scientific Discovery and Realism [PDF]
Minds and Machines, 2004 Epistemologists have debated at length whether scientific discovery is a rational and logical process. If it is, according to the Artificial Intelligence hypothesis, it should be possible to write computer programs able to discover laws or theories; and if such programs were written, this would definitely prove the existence of a logic of discovery ...
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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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