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Credences and Trustworthiness: a Calibrationist Account
All of us make judgments of probability, and we rely on them for our decision-making. This paper argues that such judgments are trustworthy only to...
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Physicists’ views on scientific realism
Do physicists believe that general relativity is true , and that electrons and phonons exist , and if so, in what sense? To what extent does the...
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Scientifically Defending Realism I: Psillos’ Holistic Approach
In this chapter, I critically assess the two so-called no-miracle arguments which Psillos proposes in support of scientific realism (I call them NMA...
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Big Ideas: The Power of a Unifying Concept
Philosophy of science in the twentieth century tends to emphasize either the logic of science (e.g., Popper and Hempel on explanation, confirmation,...
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Veritistic Teleological Epistemology, the Bad Lot, and Epistemic Risk Consistency
This paper connects veritistic teleological epistemology, VTE , with the epistemological dimension of the scientific realism debate. VTE sees our...
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Extragalactic Reality Revisited: Astrophysics and Entity Realism
Astrophysics is a scientific field with a rich ontology of individual processes and general phenomena that occur in our universe. Despite its central...
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Theory Change
The induction on models presented in the previous chapter brings modal empiricism close to structural realism in some respects. In this chapter, I...
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The pragmatic turn in the scientific realism debate
In recent years there has been a noticeable yet largely unacknowledged ‘pragmatic turn’ in the scientific realism debate, inspired in part by van...
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Quantum Fundamentalism vs. Scientific Realism
Quantum fundamentalism is the view that quantum mechanics (QM) should inform us about fundamental ontology. It is adopted by many who seek to defend...
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On the Explanatory Power of Dispositional Realism
The article focuses on the unifying and explanatory power of the selective realism defended by Anjan Chakravartty. Our main aim is twofold. First, we...
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Disagreement in philosophy
Recent philosophical discussions construe disagreement as epistemically unsettling. On learning that a peer disagrees, it is said, you should suspend...
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Goals shape means: a pluralist response to the problem of formal representation in ontic structural realism
The aim of the paper is to assess the relative merits of two formal representations of structure, namely, set theory and category theory. The purpose...
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A story of consistency: bridging the gap between Bentham and Rawls foundations
The axiomatic foundations of Bentham and Rawls solutions are discussed within the broader domain of cardinal preferences. It is unveiled that both...
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Do TEs Have a Life of Their Own?
Do thought experiments have a life of their own? Ian Hacking raised the question almost three ago, and answered it in the negative. A TEs is like a...
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Understanding scientific progress: the noetic account
What is scientific progress? This paper advances an interpretation of this question, and an account that serves to answer it (thus interpreted)....
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Scientific conclusions need not be accurate, justified, or believed by their authors
We argue that the main results of scientific papers may appropriately be published even if they are false, unjustified, and not believed to be true...
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Consciousness, Neuroscience, and Physicalism: Pessimism About Optimistic Induction
Nowadays, physicalism is arguably the received view on the nature of mental states. Among the arguments that have been provided in its favour, the...
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In Defense of the No-Miracles Argument
Both semantic realism and epistemic realism inhere in Putnam’s no-miracles argument (NMA). Laudan’s objection to realism is compatible with both...
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Reconciling Ontic Structural Realism and Ontological Emergence
While ontic structural realism (OSR) has been a central topic in contemporary philosophy of science, the relation between OSR and the concept of...