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Progressing Bird’s account of scientific progress
One of the central claims of Alexander Bird’s book Knowing Science is that the concept of knowledge is central to understanding science. In light of...
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Scientific Realism and Scientific Progress
There are four competing accounts of scientific progress in the literature. They are the problem-solving, semantic, epistemic, and noetic accounts. I...
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Scientific progress, normative discussions, and the pragmatic account of definitions of life
Discussions on the status of definitions of life have long been dominated by a position known as definitional pessimism. Per the definitional...
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What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study
This paper presents the results of an empirical study following up on Mizrahi (
2021 ). Using the same methods of text mining and corpus analysis used...
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Scientific Progress and the Search for Truth
Scientific progress is popularly conceived in teleological terms. The goal is to find the complete true story about nature, or, perhaps more...
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The poetry of the universe, the periodic table, and the scientific progress: a review of new studies on the periodic table of the elements
In 1869, two distinguished scientists, Dimitri Mendeleev and Lothar Meyer, discovered a certain periodicity among the chemical characteristics of the...
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Understanding and scientific progress: lessons from epistemology
Contemporary debate surrounding the nature of scientific progress has focused upon the precise role played by justification, with two realist...
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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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Progress
The term “progress” is a new concept of the Enlightenment. It is an optimistic term that describes the development towards a better future,...
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Gradual de-idealisation and progress in political science: a case study
This article contributes to the discussion regarding the relationship between idealisation, de-idealisation and cognitive scientific progress. In...
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Conceptions of scientific progress in scientific practice: an empirical study
The aim of this paper is to contribute to the debate over the nature of scientific progress in philosophy of science by taking a quantitative,...
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Comparative success and empirical progress without approximate truth
This paper argues against a particular version of the inference from the success of a scientific theory to the claim that the theory must be...
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Scientific Realism and Scientific Practice
Does the realism debate matter for scientific practice? Shaw attempts to justify a positive answer to this question by providing a scientific episode...
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Disagreement, progress, and the goal of philosophy
Modest pessimism about philosophical progress is the view that while philosophy may sometimes make some progress, philosophy has made, and can be...
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Emergence, Continuity, and Scientific Realism
Scientific realism postulates that science aims for truth in both the domains of the observable and the unobservable, and is capable of achieving...
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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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Progress in Understanding Consciousness? Easy and Hard Problems, and Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives
David Chalmers has distinguished the “hard” and the “easy” problem of consciousness, arguing that progress on the “easy problem”—on pinpointing the...
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Scientific Realism: A Defence
In the present chapter, I propose a way of defending epistemological scientific realism that differs from the usual explanationist strategies....
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Why Philosophy Makes No Progress
This paper offers an explanation for why some parts of philosophy have made no progress. Philosophy has made no progress because it cannot make...
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Scientific Theories Are Intellectual Constructs
We are experiencing the birth pangs of a new era in the lives of the Homo sapiens because of rapid advances in AI, robotics, and automation and the...