Scientific Antirealists Have Set Fire to Their Own Houses

Scientific antirealists run the argument from underconsideration against scientific realism. I argue that the argument from underconsideration backfires on antirealists’ positive philosophical theories, such as the contextual theory of explanation (van Fraassen, 1980), the English model of rational...

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Main Author: Seungbae Park
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Society for the Advancement of Philosophy 2017-01-01
Series:Prolegomena
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Online Access:http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/276516