Download or read book The Scientific Realism of Rom Harr written by A. A. Derksen and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by N. Rescher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasingly lively controversy over scientific realism has become one of the principal themes of recent philosophy. 1 In watching this controversy unfold in the rather technical way currently in vogue, it has seemed to me that it would be useful to view these contemporary disputes against the background of such older epistemological issues as fallibilism, scepticism, relativism, and the traditional realism/idealism debate. This, then, is the object of the present book, which will recon sider the newer concerns about scientific realism in the context of these older philosophical themes. Historically, realism concerns itself with the real existence of things that do not "meet the eye" - with suprasensible entities that lie beyond the reach of human perception. In medieval times, discussions about realism focused upon universals. Recognizing that there are physical objects such as cats and triangular objects and red tomatoes, the medievels debated whether such "abstract objects" as cathood and triangularity and redness also exist by way of having a reality indepen dent of the concretely real things that exhibit them. Three fundamen tally different positions were defended: (1) Nominalism. Abstracta have no independent existence as such: they only "exist" in and through the objects that exhibit them. Only particulars (individual substances) exist. Abstract "objects" are existents in name only, mere thought fictions by whose means we address concrete particular things. (2) Realism. Abstracta have an independent existence as such.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by N Rescher and published by . This book was released on 1987-08-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in Scientific Realism written by Andre Kukla and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a superbly clear analysis of the standard arguments for and against scientific realism. In surveying claims on both sides of the debate, Kukla organizes them in ways that expose unnoticed connections. He identifies broad patterns of error, reconciles seemingly incompatible positions, and discovers unoccupied positions with the potential to influence further debate. Kukla's overall assessment is that neither the realists nor the antirealists may claim a decisive victory.
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by Stathis Psillos and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Realism and Human Emancipation written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Realism written by Jarrett Leplin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Defence of Scientific Realism written by Robert Harry Wachtel and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism written by Christopher Norris and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. Through a close critical reading he shows how they fail to make adequate sense on any rational, consistent, and scientifically-informed survey of the evidence. Along the way he incorporates a number of detailed case-studies from the history and philosophy of science. Norris devotes much of his discussion to some of the most prominent and widely influential source-texts of anti-realism. Also included are the sophisticated versions of verificationism developed - albeit in very different ways - by thinkers such as Michael Dummett and Bas van Fraassen. Central to Norris's argument is a prolonged engagement with the once highly influential but nowadays neglected work of Norwood Russell Hanson. This book will be welcomed especially by readers who possess some knowledge of the background debate and who wish to deepen and extend their understanding of these issues beyond an introductory level.
Download or read book A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism written by Paul Dicken and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary scientific realism debate, exploring the extent to which we are justified in believing our scientific theories to be true.
Download or read book Studies in Scientific Realism written by André Kukla and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific realists claim that the unobservable entities postulated by scientific theories can be known to exist. This book examines arguments on both sides of the issue & concludes that neither side has the resources for securing a victory.
Download or read book The Problem of Scientific Realism Edited By Edward A Mackinnon written by Edward A. Mackinnon (Comp) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific realism after the classical debate written by Howard Sankey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Critical Scientific Realism written by Ilkka Niiniluoto and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Making Prehistory written by Derek Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Embracing Scientific Realism written by Seungbae Park and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science written by Howard Sankey and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
