Bhakthavatsalam, Sindhuja (2017) Duhemian Good Sense and Agent Reliabilism. [Preprint]
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Stump (2007) argues for a virtue epistemological reading of Duhem's good sense: according to him Duhem advanced good sense as a source of justified beliefs about theory choice and as a mark of the cognitive character of the physicist. Ivanova (2010) argues that Duhem proposed good sense as a post hoc explanation of theory choice rather than as a justification of it. Fairweather (2011) has advanced a "hybrid position" combining Stump's and Ivanova's views. I contend that Ivanova’s reading of Duhem is inaccurate and that good sense can indeed be accommodated within virtue epistemology. However Stump’s account is incomplete: I propose that within virtue epistemology, agent reliabilism best accommodates Duhemian good sense. Moreover, no hybrid reading is required: I argue that agent reliabilism fully accommodates Duhem's position on good sense. Finally I also explore the relevance of a reliabilist reading of Duhem to the debate on how to deal with the Problem of Induction in scientific practice.
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Keywords: | Duhem, Underdetermination, Good Sense, Virtue Epistemology, Theory Choice | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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Depositing User: | Sindhuja Bhakthavatsalam | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2017 18:47 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2017 18:47 | ||||||
Item ID: | 12948 | ||||||
Official URL: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S... | ||||||
DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2017.06.001 | ||||||
Subjects: | General Issues > Confirmation/Induction General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Philosophers of Science General Issues > Theory/Observation |
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Date: | 6 July 2017 | ||||||
URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12948 |
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