Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism
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Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism

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Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism

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The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2012
ISBN
9781137271587
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. I.1 Preliminaries and outline of project
  8. 1 The Concept of Idealization
  9. 2 The Ubiquity of Idealization and Its Logic
  10. 3 Epistemic Access, Confirmation, and Idealization
  11. 4 Idealization, Inference to the Best Explanation, and Scientific Realism
  12. References
  13. Index