Add to ORKGThis chapter defends a (minimal) realist conception of progress in scientific understanding in the face of the ubiquitous plurality of perspectives in science. The argument turns on the counterfactual-dependence framework of explanation and understanding, which is illustrated and evidenced with reference to different explanations of the rainbow
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
In section 2 I will reconstruct the antirealist motivations of the classic contingentist scenarios ...
There has been an empiricist tradition in the core of Logical Positivism/Empiricism, starting with M...
This chapter defends a (minimal) realist conception of progress in scientific understanding in the f...
This paper defends a (minimal) realist conception of progress in scientific understanding in the fac...
This chapter offers a narrative of the basic twists and turns of the realism debate after the realis...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
This thesis tackles the problem of realism in science by examining the analyses and insights that pl...
Perspectival realism combines two apparently contradictory aspects: the epistemic relativity of per...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
Ronald Giere (2006) has argued that at its best science gives us knowledge only from different “pers...
This is the first chapter of Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism. The ...
It is widely believed that science is in the business of finding out what the world is really like. ...
If scientists embrace scientific realism, they can use a scientific theory to explain and predict ob...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
In section 2 I will reconstruct the antirealist motivations of the classic contingentist scenarios ...
There has been an empiricist tradition in the core of Logical Positivism/Empiricism, starting with M...
This chapter defends a (minimal) realist conception of progress in scientific understanding in the f...
This paper defends a (minimal) realist conception of progress in scientific understanding in the fac...
This chapter offers a narrative of the basic twists and turns of the realism debate after the realis...
Catherine Elgin has recently argued that a nonfactive conception of understanding is required to acc...
This thesis tackles the problem of realism in science by examining the analyses and insights that pl...
Perspectival realism combines two apparently contradictory aspects: the epistemic relativity of per...
Scientific realism is a thesis about the success of science. Most traditionally: science has been so...
Ronald Giere (2006) has argued that at its best science gives us knowledge only from different “pers...
This is the first chapter of Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism. The ...
It is widely believed that science is in the business of finding out what the world is really like. ...
If scientists embrace scientific realism, they can use a scientific theory to explain and predict ob...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
In section 2 I will reconstruct the antirealist motivations of the classic contingentist scenarios ...
There has been an empiricist tradition in the core of Logical Positivism/Empiricism, starting with M...