The relativity of theory : key positions and arguments in the contemporary scientific realism/antirealism debate / Moti Mizrahi.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
[2020]
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| Series: | Synthese library ;
v. 431. |
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2020 English/International |
| Summary: | "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'."--Back cover |
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| Item Description: | Each chapter begins with "Abstract" and list of keywords. Includes chapter glossaries, plus general "Glossary": pages 163-166. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 171 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030580474 9783030580476 3030580466 9783030580469 |
| ISSN: | 0166-6991 ; |