Motives for Research

Authors

  • Arthur Fine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4245/sponge.v9i1.27048

Abstract

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References

Dewey, J. (1916). Essays in experimental logic. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Fine, A. (2001). The Scientific Image twenty years later. Philosophical Studies 106: 107- 22.

Fine, A. (1986). Unnatural attitudes: Realist and instrumentalist attachments to science. Mind XCV: 149-79.

Forbes, C. (2016). A pragmatic, existentialist approach to the scientific realism debate. Synthese, doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1015-2.

Hendry, R, (2001). Are realism and instrumentalism methodologically indifferent? Philosophy of Science 68(3): S25-S37.

Ryckman, T. (forthcoming) Einstein. New York & London: Routledge (Routledge Philosophers Series).

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Published

2018-02-15

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2018): The Future of the Scientific Realism Debate: Contemporary Issues Concerning Scientific Realism

Section

Focused Discussion

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