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How to foster scientists’ creativity [PDF]
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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Extensional Scientific Realism vs. Intensional Scientific Realism [PDF]
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.
Park, Seungbae
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Scientific Realism and Anti-realism in Quine’s Philosophy [PDF]
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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Evaluation of the Argument of "Unconceived Alternatives" from the Perspective of Bhaskar's Critical Realism [PDF]
Scientific realism has always faced continuous criticisms from scientific anti-realists. Kyle Stanford's "unconceived alternatives" argument can be seen as a late and troublesome version of these challenges.
Amir Sharifipour +2 more
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CORRESPONDENCE AGAIN? INTERNAL REALISM AND THRUTH
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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The Relationship between Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress Accounts [PDF]
One of the most significant topics in the philosophy of science literature is the debate between scientific realism and anti-realism. In recent years, a considerable amount of literature has emerged on scientific progress accounts.
Siavash Mazdapour, Mostafa Taqavi
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Evolutionary Approach to Realism [PDF]
Common sense realism and scientific realism are two metaphysical thesis. The former accepts the existence of the observable entities of common sense knowledge and the later accepts the unobservable entities necessary for the well-established scientific ...
Farshid Daneshpajooh +2 more
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‘Emerging contrary result’ phenomenon and scientific realism [PDF]
The article is aimed at reconsidering the question if the project of econometrics can be read in line with scientific realism. Previously, the methodological literature focused on the philosophy of econometrics, voices criticizing realist interpretations
Maziarz Mariusz
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Realizm strukturalny a problem reprezentacji w nauce w kontekście sporu o realizm naukowy
The aim of this article is to present structural realism as a realistic position in the discussion around scientific realism – its selected advantages and weaknesses.
Janina Buczkowska
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Scientific Representation and Realism
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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