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Quantum Fundamentalism vs. Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2022 Quantum fundamentalism is the view that quantum mechanics (QM) should inform us about fundamental ontology. It is adopted by many who seek to defend scientific realism with respect to QM, and it prompts them to opt for one of the versions (or ...
Egg, Matthias, Matthias Egg
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SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY [PDF]
, 2007 String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differences that set string theory apart from other physical ...
Dawid, Richard, Richard Dawid
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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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Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]
, 2006 This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the – radical – ontic structural realism of French and Ladyman.
Lam, Vincent +3 more
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Taking models seriously and being a linguistic realist
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2022 Carnap’s conception of linguistic frameworks is widespread; however, it is not entirely clear nor consensual to pinpoint what is the influence in his stance within the traditional realist/anti-realist debate.
Raoni Wohnrath Arroyo +1 more
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Scientific Realism and Metaphysics
Ratio, 2005 The tendency to take scientific realism to be a richer metaphysical view than it ought to be stems from the fact that there are two ways in which we can conceive of reality. The first is to conceive of reality as comprising all facts and the other is to conceive of it as comprising all and only fundamental facts.
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A Defence of Informational Structural Realism [PDF]
, 2007 This is the revised version of an invited keynote lecture delivered at the 1st Australian Computing and Philosophy Conference (CAP@AU; the Australian National University in Canberra, 31 October – 2 November, 2003).
Luciano Floridi +2 more
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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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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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