Sunil, Neha (2026) Counterfactual Cosmology: Incompatibility Between the Noetic Account and Cosmology. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract

A recent publication by Duerr and Dellsén (2025) extracted three lessons turned challenges from modern cosmology that purportedly disadvantage proponents of the epistemic account of scientific progress and advantage proponents of the noetic account of scientific progress. I counter the noetic account's use of one of the challenges, namely that the idealizations and approximations rampant in cosmology bar the field from obtaining truth tout court. By constructing and examining cosmological counterfactuals, I argue that the idealized assumptions utilized in modern cosmology present a dilemma for the noetic account's adoption of a quasi-factive understanding.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Sunil, Neha nms24e@fsu.edu
Keywords:	scientific progress, idealizations, noetic, cosmology, quasi-factive understanding
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization
Depositing User:	Ms Neha Sunil
Date Deposited:	04 Jun 2026 13:58
Last Modified:	04 Jun 2026 13:58
Item ID:	29873
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > History of Science Case Studies General Issues > Models and Idealization
Date:	2026
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/29873

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