An Epistemic Foundation for Scientific Realism: Defending Realism Without Inference to the Best Explanation by John Wright
English | EPUB (True) | 2018 | 224 Pages | ISBN : 303002217X | 0.88 MB
This monograph develops a new way of justifying the claims made by science about phenomenon not directly observable by humans, such as atoms and black holes. It details a way of making inferences to the existence and properties of unobservable entities and states of affairs that can be given a probabilistic justification. The inferences used to establish realist claims are not a form of, and neither do they rely on, inference to the best explanation.