Scientific Realism and the Empiricist Challenge: An Introduction to Ernan Mcmullin's Aquinas Lecture
In The Inference That Makes Science, Ernan McMullin recounts the clear historical progress he saw toward a vision of the sciences as conclusions reached rationally on the basis of empirical evidence. Distinctive of this vision was his view of science as driven by a specific form of inference, retrod...
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2013
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Zygon
Año: 2013, Volumen: 48, Número: 1, Páginas: 131-142 |
Otras palabras clave: | B
retroduction
B Ernan McMullin B scientific realism B Induction B Empiricism B Abduction |
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Sumario: | In The Inference That Makes Science, Ernan McMullin recounts the clear historical progress he saw toward a vision of the sciences as conclusions reached rationally on the basis of empirical evidence. Distinctive of this vision was his view of science as driven by a specific form of inference, retroduction. To understand this properly, we need to disentangle the description of retroductive inference from the claims made on its behalf. To end I will suggest that the real rival to McMullin's vision of science is not the methodologies he criticizes so successfully but a more radical empiricist alternative in epistemology. |
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ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01322.x |