Theoretical Virtues in Science
Uncovering Reality through Theory
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 23767017 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Samuel Schindler (0000-0002-5656-9840, Aarhus University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-06-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | BOOK |
| Revista | Theoretical Virtues in Science (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/9781108381352 |
| OpenAlex | W2803268323 |
| Open Library | OL35824291M |
| ISBN | 9781108381352 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 34 |
| Referencias citadas | 129 |
What are the features of a good scientific theory? Samuel Schindler's book revisits this classical question in the philosophy of science and develops new answers to it. Theoretical virtues matter not only for choosing theories 'to work with', but also for what we are justified in believing: only if the theories we possess are good ones (qua virtues) can we be confident that our theories' claims about nature are actually correct. Recent debates have focussed rather narrowly on a theory's capacity to predict new phenomena successfully, but Schindler argues that the justification for this focus is thin. He discusses several other theory properties such as testability, accuracy, and consistency, and highlights the importance of simplicity and coherence. Using detailed historical case studies and careful philosophical analysis, Schindler challenges the received view of theoretical virtues and advances arguments for the view that science uncovers reality through theory
Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy) · Consistency (knowledge bases) · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Philosophy of science · Physics · Scientific theory · Simplicity · Sociology · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies · Methodology · Science
Key Arguments for Scientific Realism
The Problem of Differential Importability and Scientific Modeling
Cosmic Conundrums, Common Origins, and Omnivorous Constraints
The chemical element category and classificatory norms
An Improved Model to Help University Students Understand and Assess Results of Science in the Making
Expert Text Analysis in the Inclusion of History and Philosophy of Science in Higher Education
Diagnosing Pseudoscience – by Getting Rid of the Demarcation Problem
Can Dispositions Replace Laws in the Description of the Physical World
The Anti-Metaphysical Argument Against Scientific Realism
Historical Case Studies
Metaphysical Foundationalism and Theoretical Unification
Can we repudiate ontology altogether
Explication as a basis for conceptual pluralism
The uncanny accuracy of God's mathematical beliefs
Perplexing Metamorphoses of the Demarcation Problem
Explanatory Consolidation
Optimism for Naturalized Social Metaphysics
Preregistration and predictivism
Ad hocness, accommodation and consilience
Theoretical virtues and the methodological analogy between science and metaphysics
Rationally warranted promise
Set-theoretic justification and the theoretical virtues
Abduction − the context of discovery + underdetermination = inference to the best explanation
Is there a defensible conception of reflective equilibrium
Virtue theory of mathematical practices
Promising stabs in the Dark
Feynman diagrams
Naturalistic metaphysics and the parity thesis
Simplicity of what? A case study from generative linguistics
Physicalism and the burden of parsimony
Realism and Observation
Theoretical Virtues
Explanatory Stabilization in Situations of Evidential Uncertainty
Scientific Ontology
Inconsistency, Asymmetry, and Non-Locality
How the Laws of Physics Lie
Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Inference to the Best Explanation
The Demise of the Demarcation Problem
How Experiments End
Empirical Equivalence and Underdetermination
Explanation and Scientific Understanding
Structural Realism
Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?
Reflections on my Critics
Normal Science and its Dangers
Representing and Intervening
Philosophy of Pseudoscience
Hume's Problem
Natural Selection and the Emergence of Mind
The role of heuristic appraisal in conflicting assessments of string theory
Spacetime Visualisation and the Intelligibility of Physical Theories
On the empirical equivalence between special relativity and Lorentz׳s ether theory
Predictive Similarity and the Success of Science
Theory Selection in Particle Physics
On Mendeleev’s predictions
Epistemic Instrumentalism and Reasons for Belief
Drawing Philosophical Lessons from Perrin’s Experiments on Brownian Motion
The Apparent Superiority of Prediction to Accommodation as a Side Effect
Fix it and be Damned
Commentary
Some problems facing intuitionist meta-methodologies
Structural realism versus standard scientific realism
Scientific change
A Contextual Approach to Scientific Understanding
Why The Pessimistic Induction Is A Fallacy
Relativism, naturalism and reticulation
Bogen and Woodward’s data-phenomena distinction, forms of theory-ladenness, and the reliability of data
How the growth of science ends theory change
Structural correspondence, indirect reference, and partial truth
The no miracles argument and the base rate fallacy
What’s Really at Issue with Novel Predictions
The Kuhnian mode of HPS
Akaike’s Theorem and weak predictivism in science
Pierre Duhem’s good sense as a guide to theory choice
Pierre Duhem’s virtue epistemology
Novelty, coherence, and Mendeleev’s periodic table
Reconsidering the Fresnel–Maxwell theory shift
Against putting the phenomena first
Introduction
What is wrong with the miracle argument
Prediction and the ‘periodic law’
Normativity, the base-rate fallacy, and some problems for retail realism
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate
Use-novel predictions and Mendeleev’s periodic table
Narrative and evidence. How can case studies from the history of science support claims in the philosophy of science
Popper and his commentators on the discovery of Neptune
Rehabilitating theory
The concept of an ad hoc hypothesis
Prediction and the periodic table
Theory-laden experimentation
Prediction and accommodation revisited
What is structural realism
An approach to the history of early astronomy
Does the miracle argument embody a base rate fallacy
A Confrontation of Convergent Realism
Scientific Explanation and the Sense of Understanding
What Elements of Successful Scientific Theories Are the Correct Targets for “Selective” Scientific Realism
Realist Ennui and the Base Rate Fallacy
Inaugurating Understanding or Repackaging Explanation
The Prospective Stance in Realism
Some Difficulties for the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives
Philosophy of Science Naturalized
Discussion Note
Explanatory Unification and the Problem of Asymmetry
Degree of Factual Support
Maher, Mendeleev and Bayesianism
Refusing the Devil's Bargain
The Logical Inconsistency of the Old Quantum Theory of Black Body Radiation
Karl Popper's Philosophy of Biology
An Antirealist Explanation of the Success of Science
Why Unification Is Neither Necessary Nor Sufficient for Explanation
Where the Design Argument Goes Wrong
A Confutation of Convergent Realism
Beauty and Revolution in Science
Saving the Phenomena
The Scientific Image
The Logical Syntax of Language
On Ad Hoc Hypotheses
The Structure of Empirical Knowledge
Evidential Support and Instrumental Rationality
Epistemic Rationality as Instrumental Rationality
The False Hopes of Traditional Epistemology
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Logical versus Historical Theories of Confirmation
Prediction Versus Accommodation and the Risk of Overfitting
Inductions, Red Herrings, and the Best Explanation for the Mixed Record of Science
History and Philosophy of Science
The Falsifiability Op the Lorentz-Fitzgerald Contraction Hypothesis
Miraculous Success? Inconsistency and Untruth in Kirchhoff’s Diffraction Theory
The Role of Explanation in Understanding
Fertility and Scientific Realism
Why did Einstein's Programme supersede Lorentz's? (I)
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| Citas por año | 5,67 |
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