Scientific Realism and the Rationality of Science
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God's Eye Point
God’s Eye Point
hilary
Incommensurability Thesis
independent
inductive
Inductive Inference
inference
kinds
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Meaning Variant Theories
methodological pluralism
Methodological Rules
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Mind Independent Objects
Mind Independent Reality
Mind Independent World
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Natural Kinds
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Nomological Realism
normative naturalism
philosophy of induction
Piping Plover
rational belief in scientific theories
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Reference Determination
Scientific Realism
Semantic Ascent
Semantic Incommensurability
Semantic Thesis
Semantic Version
Success Argument
Taxonomic Incommensurability
Theoretical Entities
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- ISBN 9781138251823
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Scientific realism is the position that the aim of science is to advance on truth and increase knowledge about observable and unobservable aspects of the mind-independent world which we inhabit. This book articulates and defends that position. In presenting a clear formulation and addressing the major arguments for scientific realism Sankey appeals to philosophers beyond the community of, typically Anglo-American, analytic philosophers of science to appreciate and understand the doctrine. The book emphasizes the epistemological aspects of scientific realism and contains an original solution to the problem of induction that rests on an appeal to the principle of uniformity of nature.
Professor Howard Sankey is Associate Professor and Head of Department at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne, Australia.
