Empirical Adequacy and Scientific Discovery
This paper aims to show that Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism, such as it is expounded in The Scientific Image, ends up in considerable difficulties in the philosophy of science. The main problem would be the exclusion of mathematics from the conception of science, given its clear absence...
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2008-06-01
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| Series: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/16360/14897 |
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| author | Samuel Simon |
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| description | This paper aims to show that Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism, such as it is expounded in The Scientific Image, ends up in considerable difficulties in the philosophy of science. The main problem would be the exclusion of mathematics from the conception of science, given its clear absence of empirical adequacy, which is the most important requirement of his formulation. In this sense, it is suggested a more inclusive formulation of scientific theory, aroused from the notion of Da Costa’s (1999) simple structure, considering the notion of scientific discovery in a strict sense, and the validity limit of a theory and the formalism used in a temporal context. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e7cd9d74176943caa4c1a86f5649fd052022-12-21T19:01:09ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology1414-42471808-17112008-06-011213548Empirical Adequacy and Scientific DiscoverySamuel SimonThis paper aims to show that Bas van Fraassen’s constructive empiricism, such as it is expounded in The Scientific Image, ends up in considerable difficulties in the philosophy of science. The main problem would be the exclusion of mathematics from the conception of science, given its clear absence of empirical adequacy, which is the most important requirement of his formulation. In this sense, it is suggested a more inclusive formulation of scientific theory, aroused from the notion of Da Costa’s (1999) simple structure, considering the notion of scientific discovery in a strict sense, and the validity limit of a theory and the formalism used in a temporal context.http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/16360/14897Empirical adequacyscientific discoveryscientific theory |
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| title | Empirical Adequacy and Scientific Discovery |
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| title_short | Empirical Adequacy and Scientific Discovery |
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| topic | Empirical adequacy scientific discovery scientific theory |
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