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Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108415210
Provides a spirited defence of anti-realism in philosophy of science. Shows the historical evidence and logical challenges facing scientific realism.
Author : Evandro Agazzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 35,33 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319516086
This book offers a comprehensive update on the scientific realism debate, enabling readers to gain a novel appreciation of the role of objectivity and truth in science and to understand fully the various ways in which antirealist conceptions have been subjected to challenge over recent decades. Authoritative representatives of different philosophical traditions explain their perspectives on the meaning and validity of scientific realism and describe the strategies being adopted to counter persisting antirealist positions. The coverage extends beyond the usual discussion of realism within the context of the natural sciences, and especially physics, to encompass also its applicability in mathematics, logic, and the human sciences. The book will appeal to all with an interest in the recent realist epistemologies of science, the nature of current philosophical debate, and the ongoing rehabilitation of truth as the legitimate goal of scientific research.
Author : Jarrett Leplin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520051553
Author : Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1134619820
Scientific realism is the optimistic view that modern science is on the right track. This book argues that the history of science does not undermine this notion, suggesting it as the best philosophical account of science.
Author : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139468391
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very heart of the philosophy of science. Anjan Chakravartty traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising strategies adopted by its proponents in response to the forceful challenges of antirealist sceptics, resulting in a positive proposal for scientific realism today. He examines the core principles of the realist position, and sheds light on topics including the varieties of metaphysical commitment required, and the nature of the conflict between realism and its empiricist rivals. By illuminating the connections between realist interpretations of scientific knowledge and the metaphysical foundations supporting them, his book offers a compelling vision of how realism can provide an internally consistent and coherent account of scientific knowledge.
Author : Professor Howard Sankey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1409485811
Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position. In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, typically Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of science to appreciate and understand the doctrine. The book emphasizes the epistemological aspects of scientific realism and contains an original solution to the problem of induction that rests on an appeal to the principle of uniformity of nature.
Author : Juha Saatsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 12,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category :
ISBN : 9780367572556
Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the The Routledge handbook of Scientific Realism covers the following central topics: the historical development of the realist stance; core issues and positions of classic debate; perspectives on contemporary debates and the realism debate in disciplinary context.
Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110662671
Scientific realism is at the core of the contemporary philosophical debate on science. This book analyzes new versions of scientific realism. It makes explicit the advantages of scientific realism over alternatives and antagonists, contributes to deciding which of the new approaches better meets the descriptive and the prescriptive criteria, and expands the philosophico-methodological field to take in new topics and disciplines.
Author : Seungbae Park
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 3030878139
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.
Author : Ilkka Niiniluoto
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191519405
Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys the different varieties of realism in ontology, semantics, epistemology, theory construction, and methodology. He then sets out his own original version, and defends it against competing theories in the philosophy of science. Niiniluoto's critical scientific realism is founded upon the notion of truth as correspondence between language and reality, and characterizes scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness. This makes it possible not only to take seriously, but also to make precise, the troublesome idea that scientific theories typically are false but nevertheless close to the truth.