Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism
Modal Empiricism: Interpreting Science Without Scientific Realism
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030723488 | 350 Pages | PDF EPUB | 8 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030723488 | 350 Pages | PDF EPUB | 8 MB
This book proposes a novel position in the debate on scientific realism: Modal Empiricism. Modal empiricism is the view that the aim of science is to provide theories that correctly delimit, in a unified way, the range of experiences that are naturally possible given our position in the world. The view is associated with a pragmatic account of scientific representation and an original notion of situated modalities, together with an inductive epistemology for modalities. It purports to provide a faithful account of scientific practice and of its impressive achievements, and defuses the main motivations for scientific realism. More generally, Modal Empiricism purports to be the precise articulation of a pragmatist stance towards science.