PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION AGAINST SCIENTIFIC REALISM

• Authors: Seungbae Park
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

There are nine antirealist explanations of the success of science in the literature. The author raise difficulties against all of them except the latest one, and then construct a pessimistic induction that the latest one will turn out to be problematic because its eight forerunners turned out to be problematic. This pessimistic induction is on a par with the traditional pessimistic induction that successful present scientific theories will be revealed to be false because successful past scientific theories were revealed to be false.

Keywords

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PESSIMISTIC INDUCTION; SCIENTIFIC ANTIREALISM; SCIENCE; PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3 – 21

Contributors

author

Seungbae Park

• Division of General Studies, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan 689-798, Republic of Korea