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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Antirealism"”.
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Scientific realism vs. scientific antirealism
… a whole favor scientific realism over scientific antirealism, when realists believe that our best theories, successful theories that cohere with each other, are approximately true, and antirealists believe that they are approximately empirically adequate. Scientific realism is overall better than …
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ANTIREALISM AND TIME: AN ESSAY IN METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
… I show that only this broad metaphysical antirealism can avoid the problems of progress and underdetermination that plague the realist project. As a result, I show that we should reject the notion of truth and falsity in metaphysics, and instead opt for metaphysical theories that capture …
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Schrödinger's Categories: The Indeterminacy of Folk Metaethics
… personal preference or cultural consensus. Moral antirealism is the claim that there are no stance-independent moral facts. Research on folk metaethics studies whether ordinary people (i.e., nonphilosophers) endorse realism or antirealism, or speak and think in ways that commit them to one of …
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Classical logic and its rivals
… rivalry by considering three examples: Dummett’s antirealism, Putnam’s response to results of quantum mechanics, and Tye’s response to vagueness. I will show that, despite the differences between these cases’ motivations and methods, they nevertheless all conform to a particular framework in …
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Taking the naturalistic turn seriously : a critique of naturalized philosophy of science
… attention is given to Laudan's naturalistic antirealism, van Fraassen's constructive empiricism and social constructivist accounts of science). In particular, it is shown that various attempts to refute Laudan's pessimistic induction are not successful. Further, it is argued that there is a …
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Precept and practice in science an examination of some objections to theories of scientific method
… truth. Like Wittgenstein, they adopt a form of antirealism and conventionalism which leads, ultimately, to a relativist interpretation of scientific standards and knowledge. Coupled with the anti-methodologists' failure to defeat the possibility of a theory of method, this relativism …
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Semantic and Mathematical Foundations for Intuitionism
My dissertation concerns the proper foundation for the intuitionistic mathematics whose development began with L.E.J. Brouwer's work in the first half of the 20th Century. It is taken for granted by most philosophers, logicians, and mathematicians interested in foundational questions that …
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Nothing to disagree about: Aristotle, Newton, and the existence of void as seen through a Kuhnian lens
In this work, I argue that a doctrine of theoretic incommensurability, something like that offered by Thomas Kuhn, can be used to to explain the disagreement between Aristotle and Isaac Newton regarding the existence of void. A significant portion of the work is directed at identifying Kuhn’s …
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Framed and Framing Inquiry: Development and Defence of John Dewey's Theory of Knowledge
This thesis develops Dewey’s theory of inquiry and provides a novel perspective on what realists consider to be Dewey’s most controversial claims: his rejection of the view that inquiry aims at providing an accurate representation of reality, his claim that the object of knowledge is constructed, …