Author : J J C Smart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 10,51 MB
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135028028
Originally published in 1963. In an introductory chapter the author argues that philosophy ought to be more than the art of clarifying thought and that it should concern itself with outlining a scientifically plausible world view. Early chapters deal with phenomenalism and the reality of theoretical entities, and with the relation between the physical and biological sciences. Free will, issues of time and space and man’s place in nature are covered in later chapters.
Author : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,44 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 : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 39,1 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 : Juha Saatsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,43 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 : Stathis Psillos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 28,79 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 : Ilkka Niiniluoto
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,57 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.
Author : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198745583
What is science? -- Scientific inference -- Explanation in science -- Realism and anti-realism -- Scientific change and scientific revolutions -- Philosophical problems in physics, biology, and psychology -- Science and its critics.
Author : Wenceslao J. Gonzalez
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 34,3 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 : Robert S. Cohen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401586381
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Author : Derek Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2007-07-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1139465058
Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? In this book Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.
