RELIABILITY TRUMPS TRUTH

• Authors: Cartwright Nancy
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper argues that reliability is a better desideratum for scientific claims than is truth as soon as we focus on ‘helping to change the world (for the better)’ as a central aim of science.

Keywords

EN

TRUTH; RELIABILITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1069 – 1082

Contributors

author

Cartwright Nancy

• Department of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0873-6966

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.10.1