There are several existing arguments against scientific realism which rely on the notion that key alternatives are (synchronically or diachronically) inconceivable. But there are other such arguments which have remained unarticulated. In this paper presentation, Rowbottom would chart the possibility space of such arguments, and outline some promising novel arguments for anti-realism
The problem of unconceived alternatives can be undermined, regardless of whether the possibility spa...
This is a sequel to my paper, ‘What is Scientific Realism?’, which appeared in an earlier issue of t...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Stanford’s argument against scientific realism focuses on theories, just as many earlier arguments f...
I will first discuss a peculiarity of the realism-antirealism debate. Some authors defending antirea...
Kyle Stanford starts his a recent book, Exceeding Our Grasp, with the claim that “the most powerful ...
I argue that scientific realism, insofar as it is only committed to those scientific posits of which...
I introduce the following six new arguments for realism, all of which radically differ from the no-m...
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are re...
Among the most serious challenges to scientific realism are arguments for the underdetermination of ...
Among the most serious challenges to scientific realism are arguments for the underdetermination of ...
Abstract Two of the most potent challenges faced by scientific realism are the underdetermination of...
Scientific realism deals primarily with the scope of scientific knowledge. Based on the realist assu...
The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism...
This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contr...
The problem of unconceived alternatives can be undermined, regardless of whether the possibility spa...
This is a sequel to my paper, ‘What is Scientific Realism?’, which appeared in an earlier issue of t...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...
Stanford’s argument against scientific realism focuses on theories, just as many earlier arguments f...
I will first discuss a peculiarity of the realism-antirealism debate. Some authors defending antirea...
Kyle Stanford starts his a recent book, Exceeding Our Grasp, with the claim that “the most powerful ...
I argue that scientific realism, insofar as it is only committed to those scientific posits of which...
I introduce the following six new arguments for realism, all of which radically differ from the no-m...
In contemporary philosophy of science, the no-miracles argument and the pessimistic induction are re...
Among the most serious challenges to scientific realism are arguments for the underdetermination of ...
Among the most serious challenges to scientific realism are arguments for the underdetermination of ...
Abstract Two of the most potent challenges faced by scientific realism are the underdetermination of...
Scientific realism deals primarily with the scope of scientific knowledge. Based on the realist assu...
The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism...
This book provides philosophers of science with new theoretical resources for making their own contr...
The problem of unconceived alternatives can be undermined, regardless of whether the possibility spa...
This is a sequel to my paper, ‘What is Scientific Realism?’, which appeared in an earlier issue of t...
According to Boyd/Putnam, scientific realism is the view that successful theories are typically appr...