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The Unificatory Power of Scientific Realism
- Author(s)
- Park, Seungbae
- Issued Date
- 2017-05
- Citation
- Disputatio: International Journal of Philosophy, v.9, no.44, pp.59 - 73
- Abstract
- The no-miracles argument (Putnam, 1975) holds that science is successful because successful theories are (approximately) true. Frost-Arnold (2010) objects that this argument is unacceptable because it generates neither new predictions nor unifications. It is similar to the unacceptable explanation that opium puts people to sleep because it has a dormative virtue. I reply that on close examination, realism explains not only why some theories are successful but also why successful theories exist in current science. Therefore, it unifies the disparate phenomena.
- Publisher
- The Philosophy Centre of the University of Lisbon
- ISSN
- 0873-626X
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