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2008
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14 years 10 months ago
Explanatory warrant for scientific realism
Nancy Cartwright relies upon an inference pattern known as inference to the best causal explanation (IBCE) to support a limited form of entity realism, according to which we are wa...
Robert Pierson, Richard Reiner
SYNTHESE
2011
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14 years 5 months ago
Modeling reality
: My aim in this paper is to articulate an account of scientific modeling that reconciles pluralism about modeling with a modest form of scientific realism. The central claim of th...
Christopher Pincock