De Donato-Rodríguez, Xavier (2007) Idealization, Abduction, and Progressive Scientific Change. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 22 (3). pp. 331-338. ISSN 2171-679X

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Abstract

After a brief comparison of Aliseda’s account with different approaches to abductive reasoning, I relate abduction, as studied by Aliseda, to idealization, a notion which also occupies a very important role in scientific change, as well as to different ways of dealing with the growth of scientific knowledge understood as a particular kind of non-monotonic process. A particularly interesting kind of abductive reasoning could be that of finding an appropriate concretization case for a theory, originally revealed as extraordinarily successful but later discovered to be strictly false or only approximately or ideally true. I try to show this with the example of the Kepler-Newton relation. At the end of the paper, I give criteria in order to construe abductive explanations in correspondence with a reasonable account of empirical progress.

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Item Type:	Published Article or Volume
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID De Donato-Rodríguez, Xavier xavier_donato@yahoo.com
Additional Information:	ISSN: 0495-4548 (print)
Keywords:	abduction, non-monotonic reasoning, idealization, approximation, Kepler-Newton case, empirical progress, scientific change
Depositing User:	Users 15304 not found.
Date Deposited:	28 Feb 2014 00:41
Last Modified:	11 Mar 2014 21:45
Item ID:	10420
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:	http://www.ehu.es/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/vi...
DOI or Unique Handle:	10.1387/theoria.454
Date:	2007
Page Range:	pp. 331-338
Volume:	22
Number:	3
ISSN:	2171-679X
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10420

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