| 期刊全称 | An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism | | 期刊简称 | Defending Realism Wi | | 影响因子2023 | John Wright | | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/155/154967/154967.mp4 | | 发行地址 | Develops a new way of justifying the claims made by science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans.Argues that it is possible to rationally justify belief in unobservable entities without | | 学科分类 | Synthese Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | .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 th | | Pindex | Book 2018 |
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