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The Relativity of Theory: Key Positions and Arguments in the Contemporary Scientific Realism/Antirealism Debate

By Mizrahi , Moti

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030580476
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-58047-6
Language
eng
Format
EPUB
Filesize
608 kB (622607 bytes)
Series
Synthese Library Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
Volume
431.0
Pages
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Time added
2024-05-25 04:07:45
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Description

mentions Duhem* * *This book offers a close and rigorous examination of the arguments for and against scientific realism and introduces key positions in the scientific realism/antirealism debate, which is one of the central debates in contemporary philosophy of science. On the one hand, scientific realists argue that we have good reasons to believe that our best scientific theories are approximately true because, if they were not even approximately true, they would not be able to explain and predict natural phenomena with such impressive accuracy. On the other hand, antirealists argue that the success of science does not warrant belief in the approximate truth of our best scientific theories. This is because the history of science is a graveyard of theories that were once successful but were later discarded. The author eventually settles on a middle-ground position between scientific realism and antirealism called “relative realism”.

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