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Realistické vysvětlení úspěchu vědy aneb no-miracle argument

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Title in English Realistic Explanation of Scientific Success or No Miracle Argument
Authors

JASTRZEMBSKÁ Zdeňka

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Studia philosophica
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Philosophy and religion
Keywords epistemology of science; scientific realism; explanation
Description The article deals with some problems that concern the reliability of scientific knowledge and the rationality of scientific theories' acceptance. The central attention is paid to the discussion between realists and instrumentalists and the controversies over literally interpretation of theories and their ontological commitments. The author examines one famous argument for realism (no miracle argument). She engages in the problems to which the argument is exposed (the circularity and the pesimmistic induction) and considers the possibilities to avoid them. The author concludes by claiming that even though no offered strategy is able to withstand effectively the pessimism that arises from the history of science, there is no reason to reject the realistic thesis.
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