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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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Realism about What? Unobservable Entities and the Metaphysics of Modality
Filosofia Unisinos, 2016 Most philosophers who advocate Scientific Realism (SR) endorse also Modal Realism (MR), i.e., assume commitments with objective modality. However, the precise relationship between these positions has been scarcely explored.
Bruno Borge
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Should Scientists Embrace Scientific Realism or Antirealism? [PDF]
, 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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Myths and Falsehoods about Scientific Realism
Artefactos, 2018 Selective realist projects seek to strengthen scientific realism, but influential reactions (from anti-realist as well as realist camps) regard selectivist achievements as problematic and misguided developments, because -the story goes- those ...
Alberto CORDERO
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Critiques of Axiological Realism and Surrealism [PDF]
, 2020 Lyons’s (2003, 2018) axiological realism holds that science pursues true theories. I object that despite its name, it is a variant of scientific antirealism, and is susceptible to all the problems with scientific antirealism.
Park, Seungbae
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Localism vs. Individualism for the Scientific Realism Debate [PDF]
, 2019 Localism is the view that the unit of evaluation in the scientific realism debate is a single scientific discipline, sub-discipline, or claim, whereas individualism is the view that the unit of evaluation is a single scientific theory.
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Does Scientific Realism Beg the Question?
Informal Logic, 1996 In a series of influential articles, the anti-realist Arthur Fine has repeatedly charged that a certain very popular argument for scientific realism, that only realism can explain the instrumental success of science, begs the question. I argue that on no
Geoffrey Gorham
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Scientific Realism and the Future Development of Science [PDF]
, 2019 Nickles (2016, 2017, forthcoming) raises many original objections against scientific realism. One of them holds that scientific realism originates from the end of history illusion.
Park, Seungbae
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Rôle et légitimité de la notion de schème conceptuel dans le réalisme de Quine
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2009 Quine’s mathematical and scientific realism is based upon the supposition of an all-inclusive conceptual scheme, presented as a continuation of the elementary concepts and truths acquired during the process of language learning.
Xavier Sabatier
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A stepwise emergence of evolution in the RNA world
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.How did biological evolution emerge from chemical reactions? This perspective proposes a gradual scenario of self‐organization among RNA molecules, where catalytic feedback on random mixtures plays the central role. Short oligomers cross‐ligate, and self‐assembly enables heritable variations. An event of template‐externalization marks the transition to
Philippe Nghe
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