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 ...

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Lyons & Peter Vickers (eds.), Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Realism, ...

History and the Contemporary Scientific Realism Debate

Request PDF | History and the Contemporary Scientific Realism Debate | Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is ...

Realism and Theory Change in Science

... science debate and its history-fed pessimism. He described the challenge thus: The people of world [les gens du monde] are struck to see how ...

Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of ...

This book introduces new historical cases impacting the debate, and it advances the discussion of cases that have only very recently been ...

Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of ...

The present volume introduces new historical cases impacting the debate, and advances the discussion of cases that have only very recently been ...

The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the ...

the contemporary realism/anti-realism debate as the need for evidence from ... Some anti-realists (allegedly) appeal to the history of science ...

Contemporary Scientific Realism The Challenge From The History of ...

... historical cases in order to learn. Timothy D. Lyons and Peter Vickers, History and the Contemporary Scientific Realism Debate In: Contemporary Scientific

Disarming the Ultimate Historical Challenge to Scientific Realism

... contemporary realism debate do not like to talk in terms of counterexamples to realism. Instead realism is said to involve a defeasible commitment: scientific ...

CFP: Meta-Level Reflections on the Scientific Realism Debate

Lyons / Peter Vickers (eds.), Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge From the History of Science, New York: Oxford University Press. 216-238 ...

Scientific Realism: What It Is, the Contemporary Debate, and New ...

Second, I provide an overview of the key developments in the debate concerning scientific realism over the past decade. Third, I provide a ...

Case Studies in the Scientific Realism Debate: From pilot project to ...

Identifying Future-Proof Science (2022) Book. Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science (2021) Book. Downloadable ...

Contemporary Scientific Realism: The Challenge from the History of ...

Scientific realists claim we can justifiably believe that science is getting at the truth. However, they have faced historical challenges: various episodes ...

Scientific Realism and Antirealism

Brief History before the 19th Century. The debate begins with modern science. Bellarmine advocated an antirealist interpretation of Copernicus's heliocentrism— ...

Kuhn and the Contemporary Realism/Antirealism Debates | HOPOS

And he suggests that scientists have appeals to such values throughout the history of science and across a range of scientific fields. This list ...

Why we can't resolve the scientific realism debate—and why we ...

However, views about scientific realism contain metaphysical claims which extend far beyond the reach of contemporary scientific practices.

Scientific Realism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Contemporary discussion commonly focuses on Laudan's (1981) argument to the effect that the history of science furnishes vast evidence of ...

Case Studies in the Scientific Realism Debate: From pilot project to ...

Further information about the AHRC funded follow-on project 'Contemporary Scientific Realism and the Challenge from the History of Science ...

The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the ...

Wray, K. Brad (2018) The Relevance of Evidence from the History of Science in the Contemporary Realism/Anti-realism Debate.