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Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science

By Howard Sankey

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2008
ISBN
0754658880, 9780754658887, 9780754693024
LCC
Q175.32 .R42 S26 2007
Open Library ID
OL10853004M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
801 kB (820457 bytes)
Pages
163\163
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position.In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, typically Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of science to appreciate and understand the doctrine. The book emphasizes the epistemological aspects of scientific realism and contains an original solution to the problem of induction that rests on an appeal to the principle of uniformity of nature.

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