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Arguments For and Against Scientific Realism - PhilPapers

Arguments For and Against Scientific Realism, Edited by Moti Mizrahi (Florida Institute of Technology) About this topic Show all references

Scientific Realism in the Wild: An Empirical Study of Seven Sciences ...

In this debate, scientific realism is frequently characterized as the idea that scientific progress is or involves getting closer to the truth, ...

Scientific realism, scientific practice, and science communication

We find that (a) science communicators are generally more inclined towards scientific antirealism when compared to scientists in the same academic fields.

History and the Contemporary Scientific Realism Debate

The scientific realism debate began to take shape in the 1970s, and, with the publication of two key early '80s texts challenging realism, Bas van Fraassen's ...

Scientific Realism Made Effective | The British Journal for the ...

Interpreting effective field theories yields a robust foundation for a more refined approach to scientific realism in the context of quantum field theory.

The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate | Synthese

In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged 'pragmatic turn' in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by ...

Scientific realism and antirealism

Scientific realism asserts that the objects of scientific knowledge exist independently of the minds or acts of scientists and that scientific theories are ...

Scientific Realism - lecture by Prof. Martin Kusch - YouTube

Does a reality to be described by science exist? Martin Kusch (University of Vienna) talks about "A Philosophical Introduction to Scientific ...

What is Scientific Realism? - Howard Sankey - PhilArchive

This is an introduction to the position of scientific realism, which outlines a number of core doctrines of scientific realism, and indicates a number of ...

Full article: Scientific Realism and Blocking Strategies*

I show that especially various anti-realist stances but also some realist and selective realist stances block themselves from refutation by the history of ...

Realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of science

Realism and anti-realism in the philosophy of science ... No-one doubts that our current scientific theories are enormously successful in terms of both prediction ...

Resisting Scientific Realism - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

The book succeeds in defusing many of the most prominent arguments for scientific realism of a relatively strong (traditional) variety.

Scientific Realism by Jarrett Leplin - University of California Press

Scientific Realism by Jarrett Leplin (Editor) Hardcover Paperback eBook Price: $39.95 / £34.00 Publication Date: Feb 2022 Edition: 1st Edition

Early Arguments, Realism - Philosophy of science - Britannica

A line of reasoning that became known as “the ultimate argument for realism,” which appeared in two major versions.

A Critical Introduction to Scientific Realism - Bloomsbury Publishing

The contemporary debate around scientific realism exposes questions about the very nature of scientific knowledge. A Critical Introduction to ...

The No-Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction

Scientific realism is a philosophical hypothesis that produces a true explanation of the world, excelling at the appearance of things. In ...

What is scientific realism? (Chapter 1) - Representing and Intervening

Summary. Scientific realism says that the entities, states and processes described by correct theories really do exist. Protons, photons, fields of force, and ...

Scientific realism: what it is, the contemporary debate, and new ...

The idea behind the conference was to assess the state of the debate on scientific realism, broadly construed, and to investigate or propose new directions.

Scientific Realism: An Elaboration and a Defence - jstor

ent arguments which work together to support scientific realism. Realists often speak as if there is one argument, the so-called success.

Physicists' Views on Scientific Realism - PhilSci-Archive

1) On average, physicists tend toward scientific realism, and slightly more so than philosophers of science. 2) Physicists can be clustered into five groups.