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Why Adding Truths Is Not Enough: A Reply to Mizrahi on Progress as Approximation to the Truth
Gustavo Cevolani,Luca Tambolo +1 more
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In this paper, Moti Mizrahi argues that the view of progress as approximation to the truth is not enough, and that getting closer to truth is insufficient to achieve progress.Abstract:
In a recent paper in this journal, entitled ‘Scientific Progress: Why Getting Closer to Truth is Not Enough’ (2017), Moti Mizrahi argues that the view of progress as approximation to the tr...read more
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Progress and Its Problems: Towards a Theory of Scientific Growth
Ronald N. Giere,Larry Laudan +1 more
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What Is the Basic Unit of Scientific Progress? A Quantitative, Corpus-Based Study
TL;DR: In this paper , the same methods of text mining and corpus analysis used by Mizrahi (2021) were used to test empirically a philosophical account of scientific progress, namely, the so-called functional-internalist account according to which the aim or goal or scientific research is to solve problems.
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La teoría correspondentista de la verdad y la confirmación científica
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the plausibility of some ontological, semantic and epistemic arguments proposed by defenders of different versions of the so-called scientific realism, with which an attempt is made to relate the empirical and predictive success of the best scientific theories with the truth, and show that from a logical point of view, it seems difficult to confirm that such theories provide us with a reliable knowledge of the natural world.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the history of science and philosophy of science, and it has been widely cited as a major source of inspiration for the present generation of scientists.
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Conjectures and refutations
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From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism: On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation
TL;DR: In this paper, the HD-Method is used to refine the truthlikeness and truth approximability of Nomic Truth Approximation, which is the first step in the construction of Constructive Realism.