Scientific Realism
Scientific Realism
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科学实在论
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199368815.013.30
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发表时间:
2017
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
T. Lyons
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作者:
T. Lyons
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. It is shown that, contrary to the literature, both can be understood as historically informed but logically validmodus tollensarguments. After specifying the question relevant to underdetermination and showing why empirical equivalence is unnecessary, two types of competitors to contemporary scientific theories are identified, both of which are informed by science itself. With the content and structure of the two nonrealist arguments clarified, novel relations between them are uncovered, revealing the severity of their collective threat against epistemic realism and its “no-miracles” argument. The final section proposes, however, that the realist’s axiological tenet “science seeks truth” is not blocked. An attempt is made to indicate the promise for a nonepistemic, purely axiological scientific realism—here dubbed “Socratic scientific realism.”
影响因子:
1.7
作者:
Vickers P
通讯作者:
Vickers P
DOI:
10.1093/bjps/axn049
发表时间:
2009
期刊:
The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
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作者:
Schurz
通讯作者:
Schurz