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).