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65Rejected Posits, Realism, and the History of ScienceIn Henk W. de Regt (ed.), Epsa Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, Springer. pp. 23--32. 2009.Summary: Responding to Laudan’s skeptical reading of history an influential group of realists claim that the seriously wrong claims past successful theories licensed were not really implicated in the predictions that once singled them out as successful. For example, in the case of Fresnel’s theory of light, it is said that although he appealed to the ether he didn’t actually need to in order to derive his famous experimental predictions—in them, we are assured, the ether concept was “idle,” “ine…Read more
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10Philosophy of scienceIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Argentina Mexico Brazil Chile and Puerto Rico Peru Other Centers Concluding Remarks References Further Reading.
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5La ciencia y el ideal contemporáneo de excelenciaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 11 (1-2): 773-794. 1999.
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27Epistemology and "the social" in contemporary natural sciencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 96 (1): 129-142. 2008.Philosophers of science disagree on the extent to which epistemology transcends the social sphere in mature branches of science. In this paper I suggest a way of vindicating a key aspect of the transcendence thesis without questioning the social nature of science. Such vindication requires epistemological autonomy to prevail along channels having to do with (1) selection of research goals, (2) use of human subjects and public resources in research, (3) social interventions aimed at helping scien…Read more
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46Theory-Parts for Scientific RealistsIn Vassilios Karakostas & Dennis Dieks (eds.), Epsa11 Perspectives and Foundational Problems in Philosophy of Science, Springer. pp. 153--165. 2013.
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10Arguing for Hidden RealitiesPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 55 148-165. 1997.
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57Realism and underdetermination: Some clues from the practices-upProceedings of the Philosophy of Science Association 2001 (3). 2000.Recent attempts to turn Standard Quantum Theory into a coherent representational system have improved markedly over previous offerings. Important questions about the nature of material systems remain open, however, as current theorizing effectively resolves into a multiplicity of incompatible statements about the nature of physical systems. Specifically, the most cogent proposals to date land in effective empirical equivalence, reviving old anti-realist fears about quantum physics. In this paper…Read more
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35On the Growing Complementarity of Science and TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 4 (2): 86-92. 1998.
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23Holly Ramona: La ciencia y el ideal contemporáneo de excelenciaAreté. Revista de Filosofía 11 (1). 1999.According to an old way of thinking, any leve! of problematicity with respect to truth or theory dependence suffices to spoil the objectivity of a proposal. No credible discourse complies with such restrictions. Far from compromising the existence of knowledge, correct and incorrect, rational and nonrational ideas, however. the said old way of thinking is simply incapable of representing the cognitive achievements that we actually have. This paper discusses a contemporary way of approaching the …Read more
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46Diachronic Realism about Successful TheoriesProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 43 51-66. 2008.The success of a scientific theory T is not an all-or-nothing matter; nor is a theory something one can usually accept or reject in toto (i.e. one may take T as being "approximately true", or take as true just certain "parts" of it, without necessarily affirming every posit and claim specific to T as being either completely right or completely wrong). This, however, raises questions about precisely which parts of T deserve to be taken as approximately true. on the basis of its success. A line of…Read more
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2Sobre el mito de que el realismo científico ha muertoAreté. Revista de Filosofía 21 (2): 363-379. 2009.
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14Practical Reasoning in the Foundations of Quantum TheoryIn Dag Prawitz & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 439--452. 1994.
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