Lutz, Sebastian (2012) On a Straw Man in the Philosophy of Science - A Defense of the Received View. HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2 (1). pp. 77-120.
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Abstract
The Received View on scientific theories as developed by Carnap, Hempel, and Feigl is now generally considered to have failed for a variety of reasons, bringing down a number of dependent philosophical analyses and contributing to the demise of logical empiricism. In a first step toward a rehabilitation of the Received View, I defend it against some major criticisms that are based on four misconceptions. First, I dispute the claim that the Received View demands axiomatizations of scientific theories in first-order logic and the further claim that the axiomatizations must include axioms for the mathematics used in the theories. Next, I contend that scientific models are important according to the Received View. Finally, I argue against the claim that the Received View is intended to make the concept of a theory more precise. Rather, it is meant as a generalizable framework for explicating specific theories.
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| Keywords: | received view, syntactic view, semantic view, axiomatization, explication | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
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| Depositing User: | Sebastian Lutz | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 01 Nov 2012 01:57 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 01 Nov 2012 01:57 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 9394 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664460 | ||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | 10.1086/664460 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Structure of Theories General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
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| Date: | 2012 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 77-120 | ||||||
| Volume: | 2 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9394 |
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