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From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism - On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
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From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism - On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000)
Series: Synthese Library, 287
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Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap
and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be
smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the
instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the
falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodology, used in the
separate, comparative evaluation of theories in terms of their
successes and problems (hence, even if already falsified), provides
in theory and practice the straight road to short-term empirical
progress in science ( a la Laudan). It is also argued that such
progress is also functional for all kinds of truth approximation:
observational, referential, and theoretical. This sheds new light
on the long-term dynamics of science and hence on the relation
between the main epistemological positions, viz., instrumentalism
(Toulmin, Laudan), constructive empiricism (Van Fraassen),
referential realism (Hacking, Cartwright), and theory realism of a
non-essentialist nature (constructive realism a la Popper).
Readership: Open minded philosophers and scientists. The book
explains and justifies the scientist's intuition that the debate
among philosophers about instrumentalism and realism has almost no
practical consequences.
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