Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism / New Directions in the Philosophy of Science (PDF)
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The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.
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The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.
Autoren-Porträt von Michael J. Shaffer
MICHAEL SHAFFER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University, USA. He is the author of The Experimental Turn and the Methods of Philosophy, co-editor of What Place for the A Priori? and has published many articles about epistemology, logic and the philosophy of science.
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- Autor: Michael J. Shaffer
- 2012, 2012, 209 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137271582
- ISBN-13: 9781137271587
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2012
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