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Realism: Philosophical and Scientific

open access: yesAcademicus 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]

open access: yes, 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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Scientific Realism/Anti-Realism Debate: Roy Bhaskar’s Position [PDF]

open access: yesOrganon F
The 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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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Realizm naukowy wobec zmiany teorii w nauce

open access: yesStudia 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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Should Scientists Embrace Scientific Realism or Antirealism? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
If scientists embrace scientific realism, they can use a scientific theory to explain and predict observables and unobservables. If, however, they embrace scientific antirealism, they cannot use a scientific theory to explain observables and ...
Park, Seungbae
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Two Dogmas of Structural Realism. A Confirmation of a Philosophical Death Foretold

open access: yesCrítica, 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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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]

open access: yes, 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]

open access: yes, 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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HERMENEUTICAL ASPECT OF REFERENCE

open access: yesPraxis 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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