Add to ORKGIt is proposed here that all successful and complete theories always proceed through an intermediate stage of instrumentalism to the final stage of realism. Examples from history of science (both classical and modern) in support of this hypothesis are presented
In my From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) I have shown how an instrumentalist accoun...
Compatibilist instrumentalism, aka irenic instrumentalism, exemplified in the work of Rudolf Carnap ...
I discuss in a systematic order the most important epistemological positions in the instrumentalism-...
Scientific realism holds that scientific theories are approximations of universal truths about reali...
I've previously suggested that the historical evidence used to challenge scientific realism ...
Surprisingly enough, modified versions of the confirmation theory of Carnap and Hempel and the truth...
This study centers on the issue of scientific realism, the philosophical stance that commits to the ...
In this paper, I offer a new defense of scientific realism, tailored for the Akaikean paradigm of st...
The question this paper addresses is one in what might be called the theory of theories. What is the...
ABSTRACT: I discuss in a systematic order the most important epistemological positions in the instru...
Abstract: Arthur Fine and André Kukla have argued that realism and instrumentalism are indifferent w...
Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around...
Surprisingly enough, modified versions of the confirmation theory of Carnap and Hempel and the truth...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
First the main tenets of the Authors operational-technical realism are sketched, according to which ...
In my From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) I have shown how an instrumentalist accoun...
Compatibilist instrumentalism, aka irenic instrumentalism, exemplified in the work of Rudolf Carnap ...
I discuss in a systematic order the most important epistemological positions in the instrumentalism-...
Scientific realism holds that scientific theories are approximations of universal truths about reali...
I've previously suggested that the historical evidence used to challenge scientific realism ...
Surprisingly enough, modified versions of the confirmation theory of Carnap and Hempel and the truth...
This study centers on the issue of scientific realism, the philosophical stance that commits to the ...
In this paper, I offer a new defense of scientific realism, tailored for the Akaikean paradigm of st...
The question this paper addresses is one in what might be called the theory of theories. What is the...
ABSTRACT: I discuss in a systematic order the most important epistemological positions in the instru...
Abstract: Arthur Fine and André Kukla have argued that realism and instrumentalism are indifferent w...
Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around...
Surprisingly enough, modified versions of the confirmation theory of Carnap and Hempel and the truth...
The paper first raises the problem concerning the confirmation of idealized theories in science and ...
First the main tenets of the Authors operational-technical realism are sketched, according to which ...
In my From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (2000) I have shown how an instrumentalist accoun...
Compatibilist instrumentalism, aka irenic instrumentalism, exemplified in the work of Rudolf Carnap ...
I discuss in a systematic order the most important epistemological positions in the instrumentalism-...