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Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem - A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification (Hardcover)
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Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem - A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification (Hardcover)
Series: Epistemic Studies
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It is widely believed in philosophy of science that nobody can
claim that any verdict of science is forced upon us by the effects
of a physical world upon our sense organs and instruments. The
Quine-Duhem problem supposedly allows us to resist any conclusion.
Views on language aside, Quine is supposed to have shown this
decisively. But it is just false. In many scientific examples,
there is simply no room to doubt that a particular hypothesis is
responsible for a refutation or established by the observations.
Fault Tracing shows how to play independently established
hypotheses against each other to determine whether an arbitrary
hypothesis needs to be altered in the light of (apparently)
refuting evidence. It analyses real examples from natural science,
as well as simpler cases. It argues that, when scientific theories
have a structure that prevents them from using this method, the
theory looks wrong, and is subject to serious criticism. This is a
new, and potentially far-reaching, theory of empirical
justification.
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