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99Underdetermination and the explanation of theory-acceptance: A response to Samir OkashaInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 14 (3). 2000.After a thorough examination of the claim that "the underdetermination of theory by evidence forces us to seek sociological explanations of scientists' cognitive choices", Samir Okasha concludes that the only significant problem with this argument is that the thesis of underdetermination is not adequately supported. Against Okasha, I argue (1) that there is a very good reason to question the inference from the underdetermination of a theory to a sociological account of that theory's acceptance, …Read more
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14Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies, by George M. Wilson: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. viii + 220, £30Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3). 2013.No abstract
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61Is scientific theory-commitment doxastic or practical?Synthese 137 (3). 2003.Associated with Bayesianism is the claim that insofar as thereis anything like scientific theory-commitment, it is not a doxastic commitment to the truth of the theory or any proposition involving the theory, but is rather an essentiallypractical commitment to behaving in accordance with a theory. While there are a number of a priori reasons to think that this should be true, there is stronga posteriori reason to think that it is not in fact true of current scientific practice.After outlining a …Read more
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Metaphilosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |