Why the ultimate argument for scientific realism ultimately fails
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Why the Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism Ultimately
In this paper, I argue that the ultimate argument for Scientific Realism, also known as the No-Miracles Argument (NMA), ultimately fails as an abductive defence of Epistemic Scientific Realism (ESR), where (ESR) is the thesis that successful theories of mature sciences are approximately true. The NMA is supposed to be an Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) that purports to explain the succe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0039-3681
DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsa.2011.11.001