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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Главный автор: van Fraassen, Bas C. (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Wiley-Blackwell 2013
В: Zygon
Год: 2013, Том: 48, Выпуск: 1, Страницы: 131-142
Другие ключевые слова:B retroduction
B Ernan McMullin
B scientific realism
B Induction
B Empiricism
B Abduction
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1467-9744
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2012.01322.x