Tulodziecki, Dana (2025) Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues [Cambridge Element]. [Preprint]

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This Element advances a novel view – the Epistemic Labour View – about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical virtues can illuminate and resolve issues surrounding actual cases of underdetermination found in scientific practice.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Tulodziecki, Dana dtulodzi@purdue.edu 0000-0002-1861-265X
Keywords:	underdetermination, theoretical virtues, scientific realism, epistemic virtues, nonempirical virtues, virtues in science, empirically equivalent theories
Subjects:	General Issues > Evidence General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Theory/Observation
Depositing User:	Dana Tulodziecki
Date Deposited:	09 May 2025 14:42
Last Modified:	09 May 2025 14:42
Item ID:	25262
Official URL:	https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/underdeter...
Subjects:	General Issues > Evidence General Issues > History of Philosophy of Science General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Realism/Anti-realism General Issues > Science vs. Pseudoscience General Issues > Theory Change General Issues > Theory/Observation
Date:	2025
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25262

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