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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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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.
Block Ned +10 more
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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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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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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in early childhood. Its clinical behavior is highly variable, ranging from spontaneous regression to fatal outcome despite intensive treatment. The International Society of Pediatric Oncology Europe Neuroblastoma Group (SIOPEN) Radiology and Nuclear Medicine Specialty Committees ...
Annemieke Littooij +11 more
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, 2016 This article endeavors to identify the strongest versions of the two primary arguments against epistemic scientific realism: the historical argument—generally dubbed “the pessimistic meta-induction”—and the argument from underdetermination.
Lyons, Timothy D.
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Why Quantum Theory is Possibly Wrong [PDF]
, 2010 Quantum theory is a tremendously successful physical theory, but nevertheless suffers from two serious problems: the measurement problem and the problem of interpretational underdetermination.
B.D. Espagnat +7 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro +10 more
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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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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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