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The Reality of the Unobservable - Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
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The Reality of the Unobservable - Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 215
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Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that
the birth of modern natural science was made possible by an
intellectual shift from a mainly abstract and specuJative
conception of the world to a carefully elaborated image based on
observations. There is some grain of truth in this claim, but this
grain depends very much on what one takes observation to be. In the
philosophy of science of our century, observation has been
practically equated with sense perception. This is understandable
if we think of the attitude of radical empiricism that inspired
Ernst Mach and the philosophers of the Vienna Circle, who
powerfully influenced our century's philosophy of science. However,
this was not the atti tude of the f ounders of modern science:
Galileo, f or example, expressed in a f amous passage of the
Assayer the conviction that perceptual features of the world are
merely subjective, and are produced in the 'anima!' by the motion
and impacts of unobservable particles that are endowed uniquely
with mathematically expressible properties, and which are therefore
the real features of the world. Moreover, on other occasions, when
defending the Copernican theory, he explicitly remarked that in
admitting that the Sun is static and the Earth turns on its own
axis, 'reason must do violence to the sense' , and that it is
thanks to this violence that one can know the tme constitution of
the universe.
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