Author : Samir Okasha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,75 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 : Ave Mets
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 37,17 MB
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1666937231
The Estonian philosopher of science Rein Vihalemm (1938–2015) left two prominent and fruitful philosophical-methodological legacies that continue to captivate philosophers of science: a methodological distinction of scientific disciplines and the practical realist philosophy of science. Edited by Ave Mets, Endla Lõhkivi, Peeter Müürsepp, and Jaana Eigi-Watkin, Practical Realist Philosophy of Science: Reflecting on Rein Vihalemm's Ideas explores some of these fruits that have sprung from philosophy of science, and the applications of those approaches through three main ideas: (back)grounds of the practical approach, metaphysics of practices, and special sciences. The first part features authors who juxtapose Vihalemm’s approach with those of prominent philosophers on the practical and material basis of cognition, providing support and refinement to his framework. The second part delves into the metaphysical aspects of science and practices, and comprehending them. The third part centers around examples of Vihalemm’s approach to specific scientific disciplines within chemistry, biology and humanities. These diverse implications outlined in this book, supported by solid ground and compelling argumentation, offer an original contribution to this field.
Author : Anjan Chakravartty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 29,12 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 : Roy Bhaskar
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1789603536
A Realist Theory of Science is one of the few books that have changed our understanding of the philosophy of science. In this analysis of the natural sciences, with a particular focus on the experimental process itself, Roy Bhaskar provides a definitive critique of the traditional, positivist conception of science and stakes out an alternative, realist position. Since it original publication in 1975, a movement known as 'Critical Realism', which is both intellectually diverse and international in scope, has developed on the basis of key concepts outlined in the text. The book has been hailed in many quarters as a 'Copernican Revolution' in the study of the nature of science, and the implications of its account have been far-reaching for many fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Author : Dimitri Ginev
Publisher : Springer
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3319392891
This study recapitulates basic developments in the tradition of hermeneutic and phenomenological studies of science. It focuses on the ways in which scientific research is committed to the universe of interpretative phenomena. It treats scientific research by addressing its characteristic hermeneutic situations, and uses the following basic argument in this treatment: By demonstrating that science’s epistemological identity is not to be spelled out in terms of objectivism, mathematical essentialism, representationalism, and foundationalism, one undermines scientism without succumbing scientific research to “procedures of normative-democratic control” that threaten science’s cognitive autonomy. The study shows that in contrast to social constructivism, hermeneutic phenomenology of scientific research makes the case that overcoming scientism does not imply restrictive policies regarding the constitution of scientific objects.
Author : Professor Howard Sankey
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 35,15 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 : Jarrett Leplin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520051553
Author : Samuel Schindler
Publisher :
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 19,76 MB
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 1108422268
In-depth discussion of the value of scientific theories, bringing together and advancing current important debates in realism.
Author : Juha Saatsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 18,29 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 : K. Brad Wray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 21,19 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.
