An Antirealist Explanation of the Success of Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10702736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P Kyle Stanford (0000-0003-2018-8576, University of California, Irvine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 266-284 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8248 • E-ISSN: 1539-767X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1086/392775 |
| OpenAlex | W2051899640 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 11 |
I develop an account of predictive similarity that allows even Antirealists who accept a correspondence conception of truth to answer the Realist demand (recently given sophisticated reformulations by Musgrave and Leplin) to explain the success of particular scientific theories by appeal to some intrinsic feature of those theories (notwithstanding the failure of past efforts by van Fraassen, Fine, and Laudan). I conclude by arguing that we have no reason to find truth a better (i.e., more plausible) explanation of a theory's success than predictive similarity, even of its success in making novel predictions
Appeal · Epistemology · Feature (linguistics) · Political science · Scientific theory · Similarity (geometry) · Artificial Intelligence · Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Science and Climate Studies
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Tinbergen’s four questions and the debate between scientific realism and selectionism
The scientific realism debate and consensus reporting
Reconsidering the miracle argument on the supposition of transient underdetermination
Entity realism and singularist semirealism
Should scientific realists embrace theoretical conservatism
Why the ultimate argument for scientific realism ultimately fails
Scientific realism, scientific practice, and science communication
Escaping the Fundamental Dichotomy of Scientific Realism
Singularist Semirealism
| Citations per year | 0.76 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2025 (25) |
| Highly cited | No |