Dear Cambridge philosophers of science, CamPoS continues tomorrow, Wednesday 23 May, as usual at 1 p.m. in the HPS department in seminar room 2. We will have Darrell Rowbottom (Lingnan/Durham) tell us ‘What _Can_ Scientific Realists Think about Scientific Method(s)?’ His abstract is below.
Sincerely, J. Brian Pitts Abstract: First, I will identify a methodological thesis associated with scientific realism. This has different variants, but each concerns the reliability of scientific methods in connection with acquiring, or approaching, truth or approximate truth. Second, I will show how this thesis bears on what scientists should do when considering new theories that significantly contradict older theories. Third, I will explore how vulnerable scientific realism is to a reductio ad absurdum as a result. Finally, I will consider which variants of the methodological thesis are the most defensible in light of the earlier findings. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
