The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism

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Autor(a) principal: Park, Seungbae
Data de Publicação: 2017
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/28337
Resumo: The no-miracles argument (Putnam 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications. It is similar to the unacceptable explanation that opium puts people to sleep because it has a dormative virtue. I reply that on close examination, realism explains not only why some theories are successful but also why successful theories exist in current science. Therefore, it unifies the disparate phenomena.
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spelling The Unificatory Power of Scientific RealismNaturalismNo-miracles argumentScientific realismSuccess of scienceunificationThe no-miracles argument (Putnam 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications. It is similar to the unacceptable explanation that opium puts people to sleep because it has a dormative virtue. I reply that on close examination, realism explains not only why some theories are successful but also why successful theories exist in current science. Therefore, it unifies the disparate phenomena.Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, Centro de FilosofiaRepositório da Universidade de LisboaPark, Seungbae2017-07-12T22:58:26Z2017-052017-05-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/28337eng0873-626Xinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:20:01Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/28337Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:44:35.362630Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
title The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
spellingShingle The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
Park, Seungbae
Naturalism
No-miracles argument
Scientific realism
Success of science
unification
title_short The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
title_full The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
title_fullStr The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
title_full_unstemmed The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
title_sort The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
author Park, Seungbae
author_facet Park, Seungbae
author_role author
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Park, Seungbae
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Naturalism
No-miracles argument
Scientific realism
Success of science
unification
topic Naturalism
No-miracles argument
Scientific realism
Success of science
unification
description The no-miracles argument (Putnam 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications. It is similar to the unacceptable explanation that opium puts people to sleep because it has a dormative virtue. I reply that on close examination, realism explains not only why some theories are successful but also why successful theories exist in current science. Therefore, it unifies the disparate phenomena.
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