Suppose that scientific realists believe that a successful theory is approximately true, and that constructive empiricists believe that it is empirically adequate. Whose belief is more likely to be false? The problem of underdetermination does not yield an answer to this question one way or the other, but the pessimistic induction does. The pessimistic induction, if correct, indicates that successful theories, both past and current, are empirically inadequate. It is arguable, however, that they are approximately true. Therefore, scientific realists overall take less epistemic risk than constructive empiricists
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Based on a formalization of constructive empiricism’s core concept of empirical adequacy, I show tha...
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Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? ...
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In this paper, I consider the pessimistic induction construed as a deductive argument (specifically,...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are suc...
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I...
Based on a formalization of constructive empiricism’s core concept of empirical adequacy, I show tha...
Suppose that scientific realists believe that a successful theory is approximately true, and that co...
I show that a theory may be empirically adequate according to van Fraassen's definition even though ...
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? ...
Scientific Realists (SRs) argue that it would be a miracle if scientific theories were getting more ...
Scientific realism (Putnam 1975; Psillos 1999) and relative realism (Mizrahi 2013) claim that succes...
I show that the central notion of Constructive Empiricism, empirical adequacy, can be expressed synt...
This paper argues against a particular version of the inference from the success of a scientific the...
The empirical underdetermination of theories is a philosophical problem which until the last centur...
In this paper, I consider the pessimistic induction construed as a deductive argument (specifically,...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Against the well-known objection that in the history of science there are many theories that are suc...
Are theories ‘underdetermined by the evidence’ in any way that should worry the scientific realist? I...
Based on a formalization of constructive empiricism’s core concept of empirical adequacy, I show tha...