Teller, Paul (2016) Role-Player Realism. [Preprint]

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In practice theoretical terms are open-ended in not being attached to anything completely specific. This raises a problem for scientific realism: If there is no one completely specific kind of thing that might be in the extension of “atom”, what is it to claim that atoms exist? A realist’s solution is to say that in theoretical contexts of mature atom-theories there are things that play the role of atoms as characterized in that theory-context. The paper closes with a laundry list of problems that this more careful statement of scientific realism still faces.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Teller, Paul
Keywords:	Realism reference
Subjects:	General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Depositing User:	Paul Teller
Date Deposited:	21 Jun 2016 04:01
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2016 04:01
Item ID:	12210
Subjects:	General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism
Date:	18 June 2016
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12210

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