New Approaches to Scientific Realism

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Kvasz, Ladislav
Mathematical Language and the Changing Concept of Physical Reality.
New Approaches to Scientific Realism. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020 - (Gonzales, W.), s. 206-227. Epistemic studies, 42. ISBN 978-3-11-066246-7; ISBN 978-3-11-066473-7
Grant ostatní: AV ČR(CZ) AP1602
Program: Akademická prémie - Praemium Academiae
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Mathematical * language * structural realism * changing * physical * reality
Obor OECD: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Structural realism is an answer to the challenge posed for realism by the argument from the pessimistic meta-induction (Laudan 1981). It attempts to combine scientific realism with the existence of scientific revolutions in arguing that the mathematical structure of a scientific theory is preserved in the course of a scientific revolution. Structural realists maintain that this structure is the basis of the theory’s grip on reality. In the present paper I argue in favor of structural realism by addressing the questions of why the mathematical structure of a theory should be preserved and what kind of mathematical structure is actually preserved.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0310481