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An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism - Defending Realism Without Inference to the Best Explanation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism - Defending Realism Without Inference to the Best Explanation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Synthese Library, 402
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This monograph develops a new way of justifying the claims made by
science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans, such as
atoms and black holes. It details a way of making inferences to the
existence and properties of unobservable entities and states of
affairs that can be given a probabilistic justification. The
inferences used to establish realist claims are not a form of, and
neither do they rely on, inference to the best explanation.
Scientific Realism maintains that scientific theories and
hypotheses refer to real entities, forces, and relations, even if
one cannot examine them. But, there are those who doubt these
claims. The author develops a novel way of defending Scientific
Realism against a range of influential attacks. He argues that in
some cases, at least, we can make probabilistically justifiable
inferences from observed data to claims about unobservable,
theoretical entities. He shows how this enables us to place some
scientific realist claims on a firmer epistemological footing than
has previously been the case. This also makes it possible to give a
unified set of replies to the most common objections to Scientific
Realism. The final chapters apply the developed conceptual
apparatus to key cases from the history of science and from recent
science. One example concerns realism with respect to atoms.
Another looks at inferences from recent astronomical data to
conclusions about the size and shape of those parts of the universe
lying beyond that which we can observe.
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