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The Special and General Theory of Realism: Reply to Abell, Armstrong, and McMahon
Realism General Theory
2008/11/6
Conceptions of pictorial realism abound, and perhaps only a philosopher would fret over such abundance as is to be found in this symposium. Saying that Abell, Armstrong, and McMahon offer us three acc...
On the distinction between Content Realism and Realism about Intentional States
language of thought realism about psychology
2008/4/22
In this paper I examine following Jerry Fodor a distinction between Standard Realism about psychological States and intentional or content realism. I try to assess whether Standard Realism and Intenti...
Ontic structural realism (OSR) as defended in the philosophy of science literature to date is crucially motivated by premises citing empirical discoveries of fundamental physics. To this extent its po...
A complete reappraisal of the philosophical meaning of Everett's interpretation of quantum mechanics is carried out, by analysing carefully the role of the concept of "observer" in physics. It is show...
In his paper ``What is Structural Realism?'' James Ladyman drew a distinction between epistemological structural realism and metaphysical (or ontic) structural realism. He also drew a suggestive analo...
Realism about Structure: The Semantic View and Non-linguistic Representations
Realism structure representation Newman
2008/4/22
The central concern of this paper is whether the Semantic Approach to theories has the resources to appropriately capture the core tenets of structural realism. Chakravartty, for example, has argued t...
Ramsey-Sentence Realism as an Answer to the Pessimistic Meta-Induction
Structural Realism Pessimistic Induction Ramsey-Sentence
2008/4/22
John Worrall recently provided an account of epistemic structural realism, which explains the success of science by arguing for the correct mathematical structure of our theories. He accounts for the ...
Realism in the age of String Theory
realism underdeterminism string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
The line of argument pursued in this paper is to proceed from Einstein’s fundamental problem situation to a consideration of scientific representation with respect to the Special theory of relativity ...
We consider realism as a purely metaphysical regulative principle, not subject to scientific proof. In this sense, realism can be maintained in quantum mechanics, provided one does not claim that matt...
Scientific Realism and the Inevitability of Science
Scientific realism contingency inevitability
2008/4/22
This paper examines the question of whether scientific realism is committed to the inevitability of science or is consistent with claims of the contingency of science. In order to address this questio...
SCIENTIFIC REALISM IN THE AGE OF STRING THEORY
realism underdetermination string theory structural realism
2008/4/22
String theory currently is the only viable candidate for a unified description of all known natural forces. This article tries to demonstrate that the fundamental structural and methodological differe...
This paper describes the position of scientific realism and presents the basic lines of argument for the position. Simply put, scientific realism is the view that the aim of science is knowledge of th...
Scientific Realism and the God's Eye Point of View
God's eye point of view internal realism Hilary Putnam
2008/4/22
According to scientific realism, the aim of science is to discover the truth about both observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent, objective reality, which we inhabit. It has been ob...
The paper considers the two main challenges to scientific realism, stemming from confirmation holism and the underdetermination thesis as well as from semantic holism and the incommensurability thesis...