Is There Genuinely Scientific Progress?

C. Ulises Moulines

Is There Genuinely Scientific Progress?

In: On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories

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C. Ulises Moulines

C. Ulises Moulines Institute for Philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science University of Munich

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Pages:: 173–197

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004457775_010

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The traditional notion of scientific progress is too simple-minded and has justifiably been questioned by epistemic relativists. Genuinely scientific progress cannot be explicated as “knowing more about the same things”. History and semantic analysis speak against such an interpretation. However, the epistemic relativist is wrong in inferring from this that the notion of genuinely scientific progress should be abandonned. Using the structuralist metatheory allows for several explications of scientific progress which are both conceptually precise and historically applicable. The core idea is that we may have theoretical incommensurability in the course of scientific development and nevertheless a specifiable structure of comparability at the level of intended applications.

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On Comparing and Evaluating Scientific Theories

Series: Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Volume: 72

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004457775

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2000

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  - Epistemology & Metaphysics
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