Titlebook: Knowing the Structure of Nature; Essays on Realism an Stathis Psillos Book 2009 Stathis Psillos 2009 metaphysics.philosophy of science.scie

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Structure, the , Structure and Nothing , the Structure?es and claiming that they are best understood as families of models) to an ontic position (concerning what there is and claiming that structure is all there is). In between, there is an epistemic view: there is more to the world than structure, but of this more nothing but its structure can be known

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Ramsey’s first published in 1931, in a collection of Ramsey’s papers edited by Richard Braithwaite. . was mostly ignored until the 1950s, though Ramsey’s reputation was growing fast, especially in relation to his work in the foundations of mathematics. Braithwaite made . use of it in his . appeared in 1953.

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Simply the Best: A Case for Abductionethod, namely, that it has to satisfy two conflicting desiderata: it should be ampliative (content-increasing) and it should confer epistemic warrant on its outcomes (cf. Gower 1998; Psillos 1999). Second, and after I have examined two extreme solutions to the problem of the method, namely, Enumerat

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Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianismmework for studying abduction and induction as forms of ampliative reasoning’. There is a tension, however, at the outset. Bayesian reasoning does . have rules of acceptance. On a strict Bayesian approach,. we can never detach the probability of the conclusion of a probabilistic argument, no matter

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The Present State of the Scientific Realism Debatevastly in their approaches and in their substantive theses, they can all be seen as participating in a common project: to characterise carefully the main features of the realism debate and to offer new ways of either exploring old arguments or thinking in novel terms about the debate itself.

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Inference to the Best Explanation and Bayesianism But IBE is a rule of acceptance. In its least controversial form, IBE authorises the . of a hypothesis H, on the basis that it is the best explanation of the evidence. Think of the standard IBE-based argument for the existence of middle-sized material objects. According to this, the best explanatio

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