Questions of the objects of knowledge and types of realism
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 6 (3):205-213 (1992)
Abstract
Abstract The problem of the existence of the objects of knowledge is the main problem in the controversy between realism and anti?realism. This controversy appears on three levels: (i) perceptions, (ii) concepts, (iii) scientific theories. According to perception?realism, things exist objectively; according to subjective idealism, they are only bundles of impressions. According to conceptual realism, genera (classes) exist objectively; according to nominalism, they do not exist (there are only general names). According to scientific realism, the objects of confirmed theories, including unobservable entities, exist objectively; according to phenomenalism, only observable bodies exist. On each level a naive realism and a critical realism is distinguished. On the level of scientific theories direct objects (ideal models) are distinguished from ultimate objects (real entities)DOI
10.1080/02698599208573431
My notes
Similar books and articles
Scientific Realism: The Truth in Pragmatism.Philip Kitcher - 2012 - Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 101 (1):171-189.
Ontic structural realism as a metaphysics of objects.Michael Esfeld & Vincent Lam - 2011 - In Alisa Bokulich & Peter Bokulich (eds.), Scientific Structuralism. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 143-159.
Arguments against direct realism and how to counter them.Pierre le Morvan - 2004 - American Philosophical Quarterly 41 (3):221-234.
Platonism and anti‐Platonism: Why worry?Mary Leng - 2005 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 19 (1):65 – 84.
Conventionalism and realism-imitating counterfactuals.Crawford L. Elder - 2006 - Philosophical Quarterly 56 (222):1–15.
Direct warrant realism.Keith DeRose - 2005 - In Andrew Dole & Andrew Chignell (eds.), God and the Ethics of Belief: New Essays in Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge University Press.
Analytics
Added to PP
2010-09-14
Downloads
33 (#355,876)
6 months
1 (#448,894)
2010-09-14
Downloads
33 (#355,876)
6 months
1 (#448,894)
Historical graph of downloads
References found in this work
Representing and Intervening: Introductory Topics in the Philosophy of Natural Science.Ian Hacking - 1983 - Cambridge University Press.
The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation.Ernest Nagel - 1961 - New York, NY, USA: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Representing and Intervening.Ian Hacking - 1987 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 92 (2):279-279.