Anjan Chakravartty
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 973731 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anjan Chakravartty |
| PRENOMES | Anjan |
| SOBRENOME | Chakravartty |
| ASSINATURA | CHAKRAVARTTY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5097-2217 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 125 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances
The commentators in this Special Issue on ‘Epistemology, ontology, and scientific realism’ raise substantial questions about, and objections to, central aspects of my own thinking about semirealism (a proposal for how best to formulate scientific realism), as well as the larger philosophical context in which debates about scientific realism unfold. This larger context concerns the nature of realism more generally and the epistemic stances that un…
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism
Epistemic stances are collections of attitudes, values, aims, and policies relevant to assessing evidence, eventuating in belief or agnosticism regarding the output of scientific investigations. If, in some cases, conflicting stances promoting scientific realism and antirealism, respectively, are rationally permissible, this would seem to undermine the possibility of resolving certain debates between realists and antirealists. In this article I r…
Scientific Knowledge vs. Knowledge of Science
How is knowledge pertaining to science best transferred to the public in order to bolster support for science-based policy and governance, thereby serving the common good? Herein lies a well-recognized challenge: widespread public support arguably requires a widespread understanding of science itself, but this is naturally undermined by the inherent complexities of the sciences, and by disparities in teaching and popular reporting. A common react…
Risk, Reward, and Scientific Ontology
Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology contends that ontological commitments associated with scientific inquiry are infused with philosophical commitments. Interpretations of scientific ontology involve (what I call) metaphysical inferences, and furthermore, there are different ways of making these inferences, on the basis of different but nonetheless rational epistemic stances. If correct, this prob…
Physics, metaphysics, dispositions, and symmetries – À la French
Particles, causation, and the metaphysics of structure
Reflections on new thinking about scientific realism
STEPHEN Mumford and Rani LILL Anjum Getting Causes from Powers
A puzzle about voluntarism about rational epistemic stances
Informational versus functional theories of scientific representation
Explanation, inference, testimony, and truth
Perspectivism, inconsistent models, and contrastive explanation
Making a Metaphysics for Nature
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very heart of the philosophy of science. Anjan Chakravartty traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising strategies adopted by its proponents in response to the forceful challenges of antir…
Stance relativism
The Structuralist Conception of Objects
This paper explores the consequences of the two most prominent forms of contemporary structural realism for the notion of objecthood. Epistemic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, but nothing about the natures of unobservable relata whose relations define structures. Ontic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, and that there is nothing else to know—objects are useful heuristic posits, …
The Semantic or Model-Theoretic View of Theories and Scientific Realism
Semirealism
Semirealism
Informational versus functional theories of scientific representation
The Structuralist Conception of Objects
This paper explores the consequences of the two most prominent forms of contemporary structural realism for the notion of objecthood. Epistemic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, but nothing about the natures of unobservable relata whose relations define structures. Ontic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, and that there is nothing else to know—objects are useful heuristic posits, …
Perspectivism, inconsistent models, and contrastive explanation
The Semantic or Model-Theoretic View of Theories and Scientific Realism
Stance relativism
A puzzle about voluntarism about rational epistemic stances
Physics, metaphysics, dispositions, and symmetries – À la French
Risk, Reward, and Scientific Ontology
Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology contends that ontological commitments associated with scientific inquiry are infused with philosophical commitments. Interpretations of scientific ontology involve (what I call) metaphysical inferences, and furthermore, there are different ways of making these inferences, on the basis of different but nonetheless rational epistemic stances. If correct, this prob…
Particles, causation, and the metaphysics of structure
Semirealism
The Semantic or Model-Theoretic View of Theories and Scientific Realism
The Structuralist Conception of Objects
This paper explores the consequences of the two most prominent forms of contemporary structural realism for the notion of objecthood. Epistemic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, but nothing about the natures of unobservable relata whose relations define structures. Ontic structuralists hold that we can know structural aspects of reality, and that there is nothing else to know—objects are useful heuristic posits, …
Stance relativism
A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism
Scientific realism is the view that our best scientific theories give approximately true descriptions of both observable and unobservable aspects of a mind-independent world. Debates between realists and their critics are at the very heart of the philosophy of science. Anjan Chakravartty traces the contemporary evolution of realism by examining the most promising strategies adopted by its proponents in response to the forceful challenges of antir…
Making a Metaphysics for Nature
Informational versus functional theories of scientific representation
Explanation, inference, testimony, and truth
Perspectivism, inconsistent models, and contrastive explanation
A puzzle about voluntarism about rational epistemic stances
STEPHEN Mumford and Rani LILL Anjum Getting Causes from Powers
Particles, causation, and the metaphysics of structure
Reflections on new thinking about scientific realism
Physics, metaphysics, dispositions, and symmetries – À la French
Risk, Reward, and Scientific Ontology
Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology contends that ontological commitments associated with scientific inquiry are infused with philosophical commitments. Interpretations of scientific ontology involve (what I call) metaphysical inferences, and furthermore, there are different ways of making these inferences, on the basis of different but nonetheless rational epistemic stances. If correct, this prob…
Scientific Knowledge vs. Knowledge of Science
How is knowledge pertaining to science best transferred to the public in order to bolster support for science-based policy and governance, thereby serving the common good? Herein lies a well-recognized challenge: widespread public support arguably requires a widespread understanding of science itself, but this is naturally undermined by the inherent complexities of the sciences, and by disparities in teaching and popular reporting. A common react…
On Semirealism, Realism More Generally, and Underlying Epistemic Stances
The commentators in this Special Issue on ‘Epistemology, ontology, and scientific realism’ raise substantial questions about, and objections to, central aspects of my own thinking about semirealism (a proposal for how best to formulate scientific realism), as well as the larger philosophical context in which debates about scientific realism unfold. This larger context concerns the nature of realism more generally and the epistemic stances that un…
Resolving Debates about Scientific Realism
Epistemic stances are collections of attitudes, values, aims, and policies relevant to assessing evidence, eventuating in belief or agnosticism regarding the output of scientific investigations. If, in some cases, conflicting stances promoting scientific realism and antirealism, respectively, are rationally permissible, this would seem to undermine the possibility of resolving certain debates between realists and antirealists. In this article I r…
Epistemology (17 obras) · Philosophy (17 obras) · Philosophy and History of Science (14 obras) · Philosophy of science (11 obras) · Metaphysics (10 obras) · Realism (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Scientific realism (7 obras) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)