Sambrotta, Mirco (2019) Scientific Models and Metalinguistic Negotiation. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 34 (2). pp. 277-295. ISSN 2171-679X
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to explore the possibility that, at least, some metaphysical debates are ‘metalinguistic negotiations’ (to employ a recent term coined by David Plunkett and Timothy Sundell). I will take the dispute between the dominant approaches of realism and the anti-realism ones (especially Fictionalism) about the ontological status of scientific models as a case-study. I will argue that such a debate may be better understood as a disagreement, at bottom normatively, motivated, insofar as a normative and non-factual question may be involved in it: how the relevant piece of language ought to be used. Even though I will generally assess the prospects for a broadly deflationist approach, I shall outline a sense in which the dispute can be recast as ‘minimally substantive’.
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| Additional Information: | ISSN: 0495-4548 (print) | ||||||
| Keywords: | scientific models, metalinguistic negotiation, conceptual ethics, ontological debates | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email theoria@ehu.es | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 03 Oct 2019 23:52 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 03 Oct 2019 23:52 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16488 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea / Universidad del País Vasco | ||||||
| Official URL: | https://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/... | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1387/theoria.18298 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Ethical Issues General Issues > Models and Idealization |
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| Date: | May 2019 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 277-295 | ||||||
| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2171-679X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16488 |
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