Simply put, the history of science still does pose a problem for scientific realists who want to make some sort of inference from the explanatory and/or predictive success of scientific theories to the approximate truth Footnote 1 of scientific theories, or theory parts. Selective Scientific Realism Scientific realists that attempt to identify the aspects of theories that, when taken as a whole are false, but can be accepted as approximately true for certain parts of the theory
Abstract In this paper I advocate a version of selective epistemological realism. Durham, UK. Egg, Matthias (6 August 2018). Bellarmine advocated an antirealist interpretation of Copernicus’s heliocentrism—as a useful instrument that saved the phenomena—whereas Galileo advocated a realist interpretation—the planets really do orbit the sun. I work on philosophy of science and metaphysics, with specific research interests in metaphysics of science, laws of nature, indispensability arguments, selective scientific realism, empiricism, and scientific pluralism. Causal Knowledge as a Resource for Selective Scientific Realism (Unpublished). And it even poses a problem for the ‘selective’ realists, who make a distinction between the ‘working’ parts of a … I begin with analyzing the conditions in which a scientific model successfully and correctly represents an identified target.
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Entity realism (also selective realism), sometimes equated with referential realism, is a philosophical position within the debate about scientific realism. The debate begins with modern science.
It is a variation of realism (independently proposed by Stanford School philosophers Nancy Cartwright and Ian Hacking in 1983) that restricts warranted belief to only certain entities.
More generally, 17th century protagonists of the new sciences advocated a metaphysical picture: nature is not what it appears to our senses—it is a world of objects (Descartes’ matter-extension, Boyle’s corpuscles, Huygens’ atoms, an… Selective Scientific Realism, Constructive Empiricism, and the Unification of Theories.
In: Quo Vadis Selective Scientific Realism?. The central tenet of selective realism may be summarized as follows: successful theories contain (approximately) true components that are responsible for their empirical success, and the belief in such components is less vulnerable to the challenge of the pessimistic meta-induction, for they are typically retained through theory changes. I stress that the realistic import of models rests on the truth of some predicative statements. Aug.