Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation
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Structural realism versus deployment realism: A comparative evaluation.
In this paper I challenge and adjudicate between the two positions that have come to prominence in the scientific realism debate: deployment realism and structural realism. I discuss a set of cases from the history of celestial mechanics, including some of the most important successes in the history of science. To the surprise of the deployment realist, these are novel predictive successes towa...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0039-3681
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2016.06.006