Critical Scientific Realism (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) - Hardcover

Niiniluoto, Ilkka

 
9780198238331: Critical Scientific Realism (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198238339 ISBN 13: 9780198238331
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Ilkka Niiniluoto comes to the rescue of scientific realism, showing that reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Philosophical realism holds that the aim of a particular discourse is to make true statements about its subject-matter. Niiniluoto surveys the different varieties of realism in ontology, semantics, epistemology, theory construction, and methodology. He then sets out his own original version, and defends it against competing theories in the philosophy of science. Niiniluoto's critical scientific realism is founded upon the notion of truth as correspondence between language and reality, and characterizes scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness. This makes it possible not only to take seriously, but also to make precise, the troublesome idea that scientific theories typically are false but nevertheless close to the truth.

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Ilkka Niiniluoto is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Helsinki.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198238339
ISBN 13 
9780198238331
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
356
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