The Debates on Scientific Realism Today: Knowledge and Objectivity in Science

Alai, Mario

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“…Como Alai (2017) sugiere, en los casos donde diversas teorías rivales han "competido", tarde o temprano la evidencia ha permitido a los investigadores inclinarse por alguna teoría, y aun en aquellos casos donde la evidencia no permite determinar un claro "desempate" los científicos consideran diversos aspectos para elegir una teoría como su simplicidad, coherencia lógica, su consistencia con otras teorías, etc. Estas cualidades de las teorías científicas son identificadas como virtudes teóricas (también llamadas valores epistémicos).…”

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La naturaleza de la ciencia: una introducción general desde el realismo científico

Santos

2022

CES

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Se provee una caracterización de la ciencia a partir de la postura conocida como realismo científico. Se pone especial atención a detalles que algunas veces son dejados de lado al hablar divulgativamente sobre la ciencia como la noción de verdad, realidad y la distinción entre lo observable y no observable, aspectos todos inherentes a la práctica científica. En este sentido, se pretende que lo expuesto constituya una primera aproximación a la naturaleza general de la ciencia, así como al realismo científico.

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La naturaleza de la ciencia: una introducción general desde el realismo científico

Santos

2022

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“…Central to most of these is the concept of mindindependent reality [30, ch. 9] [48,49][50, ch. 2] [51].…”

Section: Moderate Realism: Physics Might Be Able To Describe Independmentioning

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Understanding quantum mechanics: a review and synthesis in precise language

Drummond¹

2019

Open Physics

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This review, of the understanding of quantum mechanics, is broad in scope, and aims to reflect enough of the literature to be representative of the current state of the subject. To enhance clarity, the main findings are presented in the form of a coherent synthesis of the reviewed sources. The review highlights core characteristics of quantum mechanics. One is statistical balance in the collective response of an ensemble of identically prepared systems, to differing measurement types. Another is that states are mathematical terms prescribing probability aspects of future events, relating to an ensemble of systems, in various situations. These characteristics then yield helpful insights on entanglement, measurement, and widely-discussed experiments and analyses. The review concludes by considering how these insights are supported, illustrated and developed by some specific approaches to understanding quantum mechanics. The review uses non-mathematical language precisely (terms defined) and rigorously (consistent meanings), and uses only such language. A theory more descriptive of independent reality than is quantum mechanics may yet be possible. One step in the pursuit of such a theory is to reach greater consensus on how to understand quantum mechanics. This review aims to contribute to achieving that greater consensus, and so to that pursuit.

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“…This paper defines scientific antirealism as the view that successful theories, such as the oxygen theory, the kinetic theory, the germ theory, and the special theory of relativity, are merely empirically adequate. I argue that antirealism cannot survive a pessimistic induction that I call the problem of unobserved anomalies 1 . It holds that since past scientists could not observe the anomalies that caused scientific revolutions, it is likely that present scientists cannot observe anomalies either that will cause scientific revolutions 2 .…”

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The Problem of Unobserved Anomalies

Park¹

2018

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Scientific antirealism, the view that successful theories are empirically adequate, is untenable in light of the problem of unobserved anomalies that since past scientists could not observe the anomalies that caused the replacement of past theories with present theories, present scientists cannot observe the anomalies either that will cause the replacement of present theories with future theories. There are several moves that antirealists would be tempted to make to get around the problem of unobserved anomalies. All of them, however, are problematic.

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The Debates on Scientific Realism Today: Knowledge and Objectivity in Science

Cited by 9 publications

References 95 publications

La naturaleza de la ciencia: una introducción general desde el realismo científico

La naturaleza de la ciencia: una introducción general desde el realismo científico

Understanding quantum mechanics: a review and synthesis in precise language

The Problem of Unobserved Anomalies

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