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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"underdetermination"”.
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Theories and reality: Five essays on Quine and underdetermination.
Theories and reality: Five essays on Quine and underdetermination.
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Radical Pluralism, Ontological Underdetermination, and the Role of Values in Species Classification
The main claim of this thesis is that value-judgments should play a profound role in the construction and evaluation of species classifications. The arguments for this claim will be presented over the course of five chapters. These are divided into two main parts; part one, which consists of the …
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Real commitment: a coarse-grained approach to reality via alternative theories in physics
… dissertation is about the problematic kind of underdetermination: the existence of alternative theories that make the same observable predictions as established theories do but provide different ways the world is like. Acknowledging the longstanding debate on resolving underdetermination -- …
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Animating the EPR-Experiment: Reasoning from Error in the Search for Bell Violations
When faced with Duhemian problems of underdetermination, scientific method suggests neither a circumvention of such difficulties via the uncritical acceptance of background assumptions, nor the employment of epistemically unsatisfying subjectivist models of rational retainment. Instead, scientists …
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Does autism merit belief? : Developing an account of scientific realism for psychiatry
… induction. Chapter two considers arguments from underdetermination. I consider the strongest candidate for an alternative to autism, classificatory changes which occurred between 1980 and 1985. I argue this does not constitute underdetermination because those changes were methodologically and …
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Living with ourselves, together
… specifically, the first half contains papers on underdetermination by value, self-improvement, and the problem of self-creation; while the second half contains papers on epistemic angst as a social problem and the normativity of social norms. A theme of the first half is that the internal …
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Beliefs in an Opaque Brain
… true behavior-causing attitude face similar underdetermination problems. Toward the end of the paper, I suggest that the theory's problems arise from a conflation of two different ways in which terms denoting propositional attitudes, such as 'belief', are used in its formulation. …
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Understanding Dead Languages
… of dead languages will suffer epistemological underdetermination that removes any guarantee that they reflect the meanings as heard by the original language community.
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Pueblos, Planets, and Permian Puzzles: The Perils and Promise of Analogical Evidence in the Historical Sciences
… Turner raise concerns about evidential loss and underdetermination, I argue that analogical reasoning—when appropriately structured—can overcome these limitations. Drawing on case studies from archaeology, planetary geology, and paleontology, I show that analogies grounded in shared causal or …
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Werden – ein Chamäleon der Sprache : Zum Werdegang von werden
… its additivity, and its actional and aspectual underdetermination. The unique combination of these characteristics is the prerequisite for weerden´s special developmental strategy, i.e. connecting with diverse partners, e.g. noun, adjective participle, infinitive. These interactions with various …
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Limited Conventions about Morals
… insofar as the abovementioned cases of moral underdetermination are in play. That has the consequence that in these cases the only reliable way to follow your principles is to follow the relevant conventions. As examples of this mechanism I offer a conventionalist analysis of authority, such …
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ANTIREALISM AND TIME: AN ESSAY IN METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
… 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 the understanding of each philosopher provided that …
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Varieties of Naturalized Epistemology: Criticisms and Alternatives
… can undermine its motivation by challenging the underdetermination thesis it rests on. We can do this by appealing to facts about scientific practice that undermine the conception of confirmation driving the thesis, by appealing to other facts about scientific practice, and by challenging some …
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Experimental Knowledge in Cognitive Neuroscience: Evidence, Errors, and Inference
… Duhemian challenges and problems of underdetermination are often raised to argue that fNI is of little, if any, epistemic value for psychology. I show how the ES notions of severe tests and error probabilities can be applied in epistemological analyses of fMRI. The result is that …
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A Critical Examination Of Understanding’s Characteristics: Why, In A Sense, Understanding Is Unique
Is understanding a unique kind of epistemic state or simply another word for knowledge? Recently, there is a dispute in the literature between those, non-reductionists, who argue that we cannot reduce understanding to knowledge. Sliwa and Khalifa, two reductionists, on the other hand, argue that …