The present article\u27s main objective is to argue in favor of scientific realism, by justifying the demand for an explanation for the success of science, as well as indicating the insufficiency of non-realistic explanation scheme offered by constructive empiricism. Scientific realism is a philosophical conception of science that assumes an optimistic epistemic attitude towards the results of scientific investigation that encompass both observable and unobservable aspects of the world. Science is successful in explaining and predicting phenomena, including novel ones, because its best theories (mature, not ad hoc, empirically and instrumentally successful, providing novel predictions, fruitful, etc.) are (partial or approximately) true and...
Realism in logic asserts that logical theories should reflect an autonomous reality independent of t...
Theoretical discussions about technology have increasingly occupied the agenda of professional philo...
Philosophical and political discussions often become ends in circles, in which barely scratches occu...
The present article\u27s main objective is to argue in favor of scientific realism, by justifying th...
El debate entre realistas y antirrealistas científicos puede ser concebido como un caso de desacuerd...
The argument of the inference to the best explanation states that (i) because an evidence (E) needs ...
O problema envolvendo o estatuto ontológico das entidades inobserváveis postuladas pelas teorias cie...
I propose to offer an elucidation of the expression "scientific realism". I will proceed in two step...
According to scientific realism, natural sciences seek the truth about the physical world, and succe...
La subdeterminación de las teorías por los datos prima facie generada por la equivalencia empírica e...
Over the past three centuries developed into ethics a dichotomy between facts and values whose inf...
A necessidade de uma análise do conceito de Conhecimento Anterior se torna evidente quando, ao adent...
In the context of contemporary debates on scientific realism, structural realism(SR), explicitly int...
In this paper, we investigate Rudolf Carnap’s Received View focusing on his conception corcerning th...
No seio da comunidade científica a evolução é aceite como um facto científico. A evolução é actualm...
Realism in logic asserts that logical theories should reflect an autonomous reality independent of t...
Theoretical discussions about technology have increasingly occupied the agenda of professional philo...
Philosophical and political discussions often become ends in circles, in which barely scratches occu...
The present article\u27s main objective is to argue in favor of scientific realism, by justifying th...
El debate entre realistas y antirrealistas científicos puede ser concebido como un caso de desacuerd...
The argument of the inference to the best explanation states that (i) because an evidence (E) needs ...
O problema envolvendo o estatuto ontológico das entidades inobserváveis postuladas pelas teorias cie...
I propose to offer an elucidation of the expression "scientific realism". I will proceed in two step...
According to scientific realism, natural sciences seek the truth about the physical world, and succe...
La subdeterminación de las teorías por los datos prima facie generada por la equivalencia empírica e...
Over the past three centuries developed into ethics a dichotomy between facts and values whose inf...
A necessidade de uma análise do conceito de Conhecimento Anterior se torna evidente quando, ao adent...
In the context of contemporary debates on scientific realism, structural realism(SR), explicitly int...
In this paper, we investigate Rudolf Carnap’s Received View focusing on his conception corcerning th...
No seio da comunidade científica a evolução é aceite como um facto científico. A evolução é actualm...
Realism in logic asserts that logical theories should reflect an autonomous reality independent of t...
Theoretical discussions about technology have increasingly occupied the agenda of professional philo...
Philosophical and political discussions often become ends in circles, in which barely scratches occu...