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Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism

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By (author): Michael J. Shaffer

The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2012
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780230308459

About Michael J. Shaffer

MICHAEL SHAFFER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University USA. He is the author of The Experimental Turn and the Methods of Philosophy co-editor of What Place for the A Priori? and has published many articles about epistemology logic and the philosophy of science.

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