No Miracles: What does it mean that science seeks the truth?

• Authors: Maria J. Frápolli

Title variants

PL

Nic dziwnego. Co znaczy, że nauka poszukuje prawdy?

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the following pages is to show that the rejection of Metaphysical Correspondentism doesn’t force us to reject Default Correspondentism and that the rejection of Metaphysical Realism doesn’t force us to reject Default Realism. As a consequence, we aim to disentangle the analysis of the (standard, robust, ordinary but also scientific) notion of truth from the debate between realism and anti-realism. The independence of the analysis of notions such as knowledge and assertion from the metaphysical debate follows too.

PL

Celem artykułu jest pokazanie, że odrzucenie metafizycznego korespondentyzmu nie pociąga za sobą odrzucenia domyślnego korespondentyzmu i że odrzucenie realizmu metafizycznego nie pociąga za sobą odrzucenia domyślnego realizmu. W związku z tym, staramy się oddzielić analizę (standardowego, odpornego, potocznego, ale także naukowego) pojęcia prawdy od debaty między realizmem a anty-realizmem. Wynika z tego niezależność analizy pojęć, takich jak wiedza i asercja, od debat metafizycznych.

Keywords

EN

scientific truth; metaphysical correspondentism; default correspondentism; realism; anti-realism

PL

prawda naukowa; metafizyczny korespondentyzm; domyślny korespondentyzm; realizm; anty-realizm

• Publisher: Science Studies Committee, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 4(202)
• Pages: 263-280

Contributors

author

Maria J. Frápolli

• Department of Philosophy I, University of Granada (Spain)

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