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SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Structural realism is an attempt to balance the competing demands of the No Miracles Argument and the Pessimistic Meta-Induction. In this paper I trace the development of the struc...
ICCS
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
For the nonlinear eigenvalue problem T(λ)x = 0 we consider a Jacobi–Davidson type iterative projection method. The resulting projected nonlinear eigenvalue problems are solved b...
SYNTHESE
2011
12 years 11 months ago
2011
: The aim of this paper is to revisit the phlogiston theory to see what can be learned from it about the relationship between scientific realism, approximate truth and successful r...
SYNTHESE
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the
SLOGICA
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Abstract. Scientific change has two important dimensions: conceptual change and structural change. In this paper, I argue that the existence of conceptual change brings serious dif...