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I erect a framework within the semantic view of theories for explaining the empirical success of internally inconsistent models and theories, with scientific realism in mind. The framework is an...
Did Perrin's experiments convert Poincaré to Scientific Realism?
Atomism Fundamentalism Henri Poincare Scientific Realism Structural Realism
2016/6/13
In this paper I argue that Poincaré’s acceptance of the atom does not indicate a shift from instrumentalism to scientific realism. I examine the implications of Poincaré’s acceptance of the existence ...
Scientific Realism, the Galilean Strategy, and Representation
Scientific Realism Representation Models Inference Instrumentalism Pragmatism Philip Kitcher
2009/10/1
This paper critically reviews Philip Kitcher’s most recent epistemology of science, real realism. I argue that this view is unstable under different understandings of the term “representation”, and th...
ARE UNCONCEIVED ALTERNATIVES A PROBLEM FOR SCIENTIFIC REALISM?
UNCONCEIVED ALTERNATIVES SCIENTIFIC REALISM
2009/9/11
Kyle Stanford starts his a recent book, Exceeding Our Grasp, with the claim that “the most powerful challenge to scientific realism has yet to be formulated” (2006: 9). He goes on to formulate what he...
Structural Realism versus Standard Scientific Realism: The Case of Phlogiston and Dephlogisticated Air
ontic structural realism approximate truth reference theoretical terms phlogiston
2009/6/9
The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful reference. It is argued...
Scientific Realism and the Inevitability of Science
Scientific realism contingency inevitability
2008/4/22
This paper examines the question of whether scientific realism is committed to the inevitability of science or is consistent with claims of the contingency of science. In order to address this questio...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY
realism underdetermination string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
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 differe...
This paper describes the position of scientific realism and presents the basic lines of argument for the position. Simply put, scientific realism is the view that the aim of science is knowledge of th...
Scientific Realism and the God's Eye Point of View
God's eye point of view internal realism Hilary Putnam
2008/4/22
According to scientific realism, the aim of science is to discover the truth about both observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent, objective reality, which we inhabit. It has been ob...
The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism and the underdetermination thesis as well as from semantic holism and the incommensurability thesis...
This paper reviews the situation with respect to the referential approach to the problem of semantic incommensurability. It argues that the thesis of semantic incommensurability does not pose a signif...
Material Theory of Induction and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism Material induction Norton
2008/4/15
John Norton has advanced a general view of induction---`Material Theory of Induction'---that renders ampliative reasoning in a deep sense local. This paper is a sympathetic appraisal of this view, app...
Empirical Success or Explanatory Success: What does Current Scientific Realism Need to Explain?
Anti-Realist Scientific Realism
2008/4/1
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are successful but false, Psillos offers a three-pronged defense of scientific realism as the best explanat...
Confirming Idealized Theories and Scientific Realism
induction confirmation idealization approximation
2008/4/1
Two types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to give a critique of Ron Laymon's account of confirming idealized theories and his argument for scienti...
Confirming Idealized Theories and Scientific Realism
induction confirmation idealization approximation realism antirealism
2007/3/19
Two types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to give a critique of Ron Laymon's account of confirming idealized theories and his argument for scienti...