Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism

Michael J. Shaffer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

209 Seiten

2012
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-30845-9 (ISBN)

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The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.

MICHAEL SHAFFER is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University, USA. He is the author of The Experimental Turn and the Methods of Philosophy, co-editor of What Place for the A Priori? and has published many articles about epistemology, logic and the philosophy of science.

Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Concept of Idealization The Ubiquity of Idealization and Its Logic Epistemic Access, Confirmation and Idealization Idealization, Inference to the Best Explanation and Scientific Realism References Index

Reihe/Serie	New Directions in the Philosophy of Science
Zusatzinfo	XI, 209 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-230-30845-7 / 0230308457
ISBN-13	978-0-230-30845-9 / 9780230308459
Zustand	Neuware