Sumários
Lesson 13b (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
27 Maio 2020, 18:00 • Daniele Molinini
Arguments in favor and against scientific realism. Two arguments that challenge scientific realism: underdetermination of theory by data (weak and strong versions of the argument) and the pessimistic meta-induction. How some realists have responded to these arguments. Two arguments in favor of scientific realism: the argument from corroboration and the no miracle argument. How some anti-realists have responded to these arguments.
Lesson 13a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
27 Maio 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini
Scientific realism and anti-realism. Definition of Standard Scientific Realism (SSR) as a view that incorporates three distinct thesis: a metaphysical thesis, a semantic thesis and an epistemological thesis. remarks on the motivations to introduce the notion of “approximate truth”in the current debate (idealizations and abstractions). Three varieties of scientific realism: Explanations, Entity Realism and Structuralism. Constructive empiricism (Bas van Fraassen, The Scientific Image).
Lesson 11b (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
20 Maio 2020, 18:00 • Daniele Molinini
Remarks on some forms of realism that we find in philosophy and that are connected to scientific realism. The question of theoretical terms in logical empiricism. Semantic instrumentalism and reductive empiricism. Social constructivism and the correspondence theory of truth.
Lesson 11a (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
20 Maio 2020, 16:00 • Daniele Molinini
The 'historical turn' in the philosophy of science. Kuhn's philosophy of science. Differences between Kuhn's view and the views advanced by Popper and the logical empiricists. The notion of paradigm in Kuhn. The notion of incommensurability in Kuhn and in Feyerabend. Lakatos' Research Programmes as a middle way between Popper and Kuhn.
Lesson 10b (Tipologia da aula: Videoconferência)
13 Maio 2020, 18:00 • Daniele Molinini
Pierre Duhem's holism and the ambiguity of falsification. The notion of theory-lateness and Duhem's arguments against the possibility of having a crucial experiment. Remarks on the historical turn in philosophy of science that took place in the 1960s.