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A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism
Author | : Jarrett Leplin |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1997-08-07 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0195354370 |
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Vigorous and controversial, this book develops a sustained argument for a realist interpretation of science, based on a new analysis of the concept of predictive novelty. Identifying a form of success achieved in science--the successful prediction of novel empirical results--which can be explained only by attributing some measure of truth to the theories that yield it, Jarrett Leplin demonstrates the incapacity of nonrealist accounts to accommodate novel success and constructs a deft realist explanation of novelty. To test the applicability of novel success as a standard of warrant for theories, Leplin examines current directions in theoretical physics, fashioning a powerful critique of currently developing standards of evaluation. Arguing that explanatory uniqueness warrants inference, and exposing flaws in contending philosophical positions that sever explanatory power from epistemic justification, Leplin holds that abductive, or explanatory, inference is as fundamental as enumerative or eliminative inference, and contends that neither induction nor abduction can proceed without the other on pain of generating paradoxes. Leplin's conception of novelty has two basic components: an independence condition, ensuring that a result novel for a theory have no essential role, even indirectly, in the theory's provenance; and a uniqueness condition, ensuring that no competing theory provides a basis for predicting the same result. Showing that alternative approaches to novelty fall short in both respects, Leplin proceeds to a series of test cases, engaging prominent scientific theories from nineteenth-century accounts of light to modern cosmology in an effort to demonstrate the epistemological superiority of his view. Ambitious and tightly argued, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism advances new positions on major topics in philosophy of science and offers a version of realism as original as it is compelling, making it essential reading for philosophers of science, epistemologists, and scholars in science studies.
A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism
Author | : Jarrett Leplin |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Realism |
ISBN | : 0197731120 |
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Attempting to reinstate the common-sense idea that theoretical knowledge is achievable, the author of this text accounts for the genesis of the sceptical position, then introduces his argument for Minimalist Scientific Realism.
Embracing Scientific Realism
Author | : Seungbae Park |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2021-12-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9783030878139 |
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This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contributions to the scientific realism debate. Readers will encounter old and new arguments for and against scientific realism. They will also be given useful tips for how to provide influential formulations of scientific realism and antirealism. Finally, they will see how scientific realism relates to scientific progress, scientific understanding, mathematical realism, and scientific practice.
Resisting Scientific Realism
Author | : K. Brad Wray |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108415217 |
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Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.
The Explanationist Defense of Scientific Realism
Author | : Dorit A. Ganson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781136712043 |
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Ganson offers new hope in this work for the defense of scientific realism by undermining powerful anti-realist objections and advocating an abandonment of naturalist and externalist strategies.
Incommensurability and Scientific Realism
Author | : Omar Rodríguez Carrasquillo |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3339119643 |
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Scientific Realism
Author | : Jarrett Leplin |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2023-04-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780520337442 |
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
Realism Rescued
Author | : Jerrold L. Aronson,Rom Harré,Eileen Cornell Way |
Publsiher | : Open Court Publishing |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0812692888 |
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Does science give us a progressively more accurate and objective account of the world? This book by three leading philosophers of science presents a new defense of scientific realism against skeptical and positivist attacks. While positivists view scientific theories as devices for predicting observable phenomena, realists maintain that theories describe hidden processes which account for observable phenomena. This problem raises the question: What are scientific theories about? Do they refer to an unobservable yet real realm of physical processes? It seems undeniable that the scientific endeavor has in some sense made progress. But is the increasing practical success of the physical sciences good grounds for believing that their theories and techniques lead us nearer to the truth? According to Aronson, Harre, and Way, past failures to answer these questions have been due in large part to the assumption that knowledge is expressed in propositions and organized by the canons of logic. On the assumption that science must meet the world in a correspondence between statements and states of affairs, realism turns out to be difficult to defend. Realism Rescued offers a new direction, relying on the importance of models in scientific work. Theories are not to be thought of as sets of propositions, though they can be expressed propositionally. Rather they are models, chunks of orderings of natural kinds. For the first time, the indispensability of models is turned into a powerful argument for realism, an argument that confronts the skeptic on his own ground. By drawing on a new technique of knowledge representation developed in Artificial Intelligence, the dynamic type-hierarchy, the authorsgive a convincing account of the central role of models. Such concepts as verisimilitude, natural kind, natural necessity, and natural law can then be presented far more clearly than ever before.