Tulodziecki, D. (2017) Against Selective Realism(s). [Preprint]
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Abstract
It has recently been suggested (for example, Lyons 2006) that realist responses to historical cases featured in pessimistic meta-inductions are not as successful as previously thought. In response, selective realists have updated the basic divide et impera strategy specifically to take such cases into account and to argue that more modern realist accounts are immune to the historical challenge (cf. Vickers 2013). Using a case-study – that of the 19th century zymotic theory of disease – I argue that these updated proposals fail and that even the most sophisticated recent realist accounts remain vulnerable to the challenge from history.
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| Keywords: | Scientific Realism, Pessimistic Meta-Induction, History and Philosophy of Medicine, History and Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Depositing User: | D Tulodziecki | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2017 15:58 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2017 15:58 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 12767 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > History of Science Case Studies Specific Sciences > Medicine General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Theory Change |
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| Date: | 1 January 2017 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12767 |
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