Scientific Realism
Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences and HPS
... Some of the most central and long-lasting controversies in philosophy of science have concerned various forms of ‘scientific realism’. Historically, one important set of issues characterized in these terms ...
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ARE UNCONCEIVED ALTERNATIVES A PROBLEM FOR SCIENTIFIC REALISM?
... of scientific realism arises only once such doubts about the observable world have, somehow or other, been ...of Scientific Realism does not require that we refight the battle with extreme ...
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Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism
... overcomes the usual realist defences. For example, when it comes to the success-to-truth inference at the core of scientific realism, modern realists set a high bar for the level of success required. Novel ...
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Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
... if realism provides the best explanation of what is admittedly only one dimension, though a fundamental one, of a theory’s success: the fact that it is empirically adequate, instrumentally reliable, or a good ...
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An argument in defence of scientific realism
... 16. Scientific realism is a generic ...ovements, scientific realism is a majority position whose advocates are so divided as to appear a ...subject. Scientific realists do not agree on ...
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Idealization, Confirmation, and Scientific Realism
... supports scientific realism because otherwise, it would be difficult to understand why confirmation of an idealized theory should approbate ...supports realism via ...
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Scientific realism in the philosophy of science and international relations
... the realism issue can be both brief and ...seen, realism remains very controversial in the philosophy of science and one cannot ‘borrow’ from realist doctrines in order to bolster the scientific ...
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Physics and scientific realism
... on scientific practice at the price of contradicting his views about theories? The difficulty disappears when (i) we note that there is an ambiguity in the term my realism’ in the passage last quoted: it ...
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Abiogenesis as a theoretical challenge: chance and directionality through the lens of scientific realism
... that a rational framework for OoL field should be located in the philosopi- cal reflection of the status of earth sciences. Further, here I contend that reframing the OoL field in the ligh of a scientific realist ...
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Does Scientific Realism Beg the Question?
... Similarly, the standard argument would beg the question in the strict sense if it invoked the truth of scientific theories in support ofJBE and thm w mton to :invoke JBE :in 3..[r] ...
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The problem of model selection and scientific realism
... Now, let us pause for a short while to see what we have done so far and where are going to in the rest of the chapter, and, indeed, in the rest of the thesis. To begin with, we considered the issue of scientific ...
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Scientific Realism and the Criteria for Theory-Choice
... Successive changes of this kind in a community's set of evaluative criteria can be interpreted as improvements of the fit between the sequence of theory-choices [r] ...
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Confirmation for a Modest Realism
... magnetism and optics is a good candidate for such examination. (It is surely no coincidence that Whewell was extremely interested in Faraday’s work, suggesting terminology and experiments for him to perform, and that ...
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Fictions, Inference, and Realism
... called scientific fictionalism ...and scientific realism and have found no good argument to this ...that scientific realism is true, and of course it is not to say that ...
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The ‘Truth’ Between Realism and Anti-Realism
... structural realism, other arguments provoked, among them is Chakravartty’s attempt 21 to defend Scientific realism by connecting it to the metaphysical conception of the world, Chakravartty argument ...
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Replacing Recipe Realism
... empirical success (and in particular predictive success) of science is a matter of science progressively latching better and better onto unobservable reality. As a global attitude towards science, scientific ...
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Fictionalism, Realism, Empiricism on Scientific Models
... to scientific realism when we understand models according to the hybrid ...that scientific realists have any success in arguing for their position, the fact that real systems are often represented in ...
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Experiments and Functional Realism
... A functional ontology supplies a categorial framework that grounds and limits the language used in describing experiments and reporting results.. The scope and limitations of such a loca[r] ...
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Egypt and the failure of realism
... There is an obvious danger contained in the argument I have made thus far – it is all too easy to equate the political calculations of state representatives with a realist theory of International Relations. A committed ...
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The Realism of Taxonomic Pluralism
... of realism dismisses from the outset a significant portion of theoretical groupings in various scientific disciplines as unreal, even though these groupings are no less sanctioned by empirical evidence than ...
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