Andersen, Holly (2023) Trueing. [Preprint]
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Even in areas of philosophy of science that don’t involve formal treatments of truth, one’s background view of truth still centrally shapes views on other issues. I offer an informal way to think about truth as trueing, like trueing a bicycle wheel. This holist approach to truth provides a way to discuss knowledge products like models in terms of how well-trued they are to their target. Trueing emphasizes: the process by which models are brought into true; how the idealizations in models are not false but rather like spokes in appropriate tension to achieve a better-trued fit to target; and that this process is not accomplished once and done forever, but instead requires upkeep and ongoing fine-tuning. I conclude by emphasizing the social importance of being a pragmatist about truth in order to accurately answer questions about science such as, “but do we really know that…”
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| Additional Information: | forthcoming in The Pragmatist Challenge: Pragmatist Metaphysics for Philosophy of Science, OUP, eds. Andersen and Mitchell | ||||||
| Keywords: | truth, idealization, modeling, holism, pragmatism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Holly Andersen | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 12 Aug 2022 14:30 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 12 Aug 2022 14:32 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 21044 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Science and Society General Issues > Social Epistemology of Science |
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| Date: | 2023 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/21044 |
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