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2006
AbstractThis chapter begins by addressing the question: what is scientific realism? It then considers the most influential arguments for and against scientific realism. The arguments for are the ‘success argument’ and related explanationist arguments. The arguments against are the ‘underdetermination argument’, which starts from the claim that theories
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AbstractThis chapter begins by addressing the question: what is scientific realism? It then considers the most influential arguments for and against scientific realism. The arguments for are the ‘success argument’ and related explanationist arguments. The arguments against are the ‘underdetermination argument’, which starts from the claim that theories
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Contrast, inference and scientific realism
Synthese, 2006The thesis of underdetermination presents a major obstacle to the epistemological claims of scientific realism. That thesis is regularly assumed in the philosophy of science, but is puzzlingly at odds with the actual history of science, in which empirically adequate theories are thin on the ground.
Mark Day, George S. Botterill
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Conjunctive properties and scientific realism
Analysis, 1977S there any reason to think that conjunctions of properties are themselves properties? Professor D. M. Armstrong has recently argued that there is ('Towards a Theory of Properties: Work in Progress on the Problem of Universals', Philosophy LII (I975), 144-5 5). Armstrong presents a theory of properties (p. 149) which is both 'Scientific Realist' ('what
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‘Scientific Realism’ and Scientific Practice
2000The adjective ‘scientific’ as used in the title of this lecture refers in the first place to modern experimental and mathematical physics; and to the other natural sciences insofar as they follow the lead of physics and thrive in its light. I do not place this restriction on the word in the context of this lecture because I hold other forms of learning
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The ultimate argument for scientific realism
1988Realism and relativism stand opposed. This much is apparent if we consider no more than the realist aim for science. The aim of science, realists tell us, is to have true theories about the world, where ‘true’ is understood in the classical correspondence sense.
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Scientific Realism and the Issue of Variability in Behavior
Theory and Psychology, 2021Frank Arocha, Jose Arocha
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Scientific Realism, Objectivity, and ‘Technological Realism’
2000The concept of scientific realism involves two different philosophical levels which we specially need to distinguish. On the one hand, the epistemological level, that is to say, the claim that reality can be known by scientific reason with no limit; on the other, the ontological level, according to which the world is independent both from the observer ...
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