Add to ORKGTwo types of idealization in theory construction are distinguished, and the distinction is used to give a critique of Ron Laymon's account of confirming idealized theories and his argument for scientific realism
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
Intuitively, science progresses from truth to truth. A glance at history quickly reveals that this i...
Scientific realists use the "no miracle argument" to show that the empirical and pragmatic success o...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
In the traditional debate between realism and antirealism, or more broadly speaking, in any traditio...
That many of our most successful scientific theories involve one or more idealizations poses a chall...
The use of idealized scientific theories in explanations of empirical facts and regularities is prob...
The fact that many scientific models are idealised, and therefore incorporate known falsehoods, seem...
I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can b...
It has been argued that the presence of idealizations in physical theories implies that scientific r...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
Philosophers of science increasingly recognize the importance of idealization: the intentional intro...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
Intuitively, science progresses from truth to truth. A glance at history quickly reveals that this i...
Scientific realists use the "no miracle argument" to show that the empirical and pragmatic success o...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
In the traditional debate between realism and antirealism, or more broadly speaking, in any traditio...
That many of our most successful scientific theories involve one or more idealizations poses a chall...
The use of idealized scientific theories in explanations of empirical facts and regularities is prob...
The fact that many scientific models are idealised, and therefore incorporate known falsehoods, seem...
I explore a challenge that idealisations pose to scientific realism and argue that the realist can b...
It has been argued that the presence of idealizations in physical theories implies that scientific r...
In this paper, I first give a brief summary of a critique of the traditional theories of approximati...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Idealizations are rampant and unchecked in science. That is, they exist throughout our best represen...
Philosophers of science increasingly recognize the importance of idealization: the intentional intro...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
Intuitively, science progresses from truth to truth. A glance at history quickly reveals that this i...
Scientific realists use the "no miracle argument" to show that the empirical and pragmatic success o...