VĚDECKÝ REALISMUS JAKO KULTIVACE DUCHA

• Authors: Zach Martin

Title variants

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Scientific realism as a spiritual cultivation

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The aim of this article is to clarify scientific realism in connection with a few key questions that have recently been brought up by Jaroslav Peregrin. The author will try to provide a reaction to Peregrin on a number of issues, in particular, to explain in what sense we can talk about confirming or disconfirming realism. Next, he will focus on whether realism is a good, or indeed the best, explanation of the success of science, and how it fares in comparison with antirealism. To conclude, he will briefly sketch the directions in which contemporary debates have been heading. The unifying aspect of this article is the thesis that the question of scientific realism is a complex one and that it is also a topic which shows that philosophy, at least in some of its domains, has been progressive.

Keywords

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SCIENTIFIC REALISM; SCIENCE; PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS; SCIENTIFIC MODELS; PEREGRIN JAROSLAV

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 381 – 391

Contributors

author

Zach Martin

• Ústav filosofie a religionistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Praha, Czech Republic