The Instrument of Science (Hardcover)

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Editorial: Taylor & Francis Ltd, London, 2019

0367077450 / 9780367077457

Serie: Libro 19 de 34 - Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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Hardcover. Roughly, instrumentalism is the view that science is primarily, and should primarily be, an instrument for furthering our practical ends. It has fallen out of favour because historically influential variants of the view, such as logical positivism, suffered from serious defects.In this book, however, Darrell P. Rowbottom develops a new form of instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and resilient than its predecessors. This positioncognitive instrumentalisminvolves three core theses. First, science makes theoretical progress primarily when it furnishes us with more predictive power or understanding concerning observable things. Second, scientific discourse concerning unobservable things should only be taken literally in so far as it involves observable properties or analogies with observable things. Third, scientific claims about unobservable things are probably neither approximately true nor liable to change in such a way as to increase in truthlikeness.There are examples from science throughout the book, and Rowbottom demonstrates at length how cognitive instrumentalism fits with the development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century chemistry and physics, and especially atomic theory. Drawing upon this history, Rowbottom also argues that there is a kind of understanding, empirical understanding, which we can achieve without having true, or even approximately true, representations of unobservable things. In closing the book, he sets forth his view on how the distinction between the observable and unobservable may be drawn, and compares cognitive instrumentalism with key contemporary alternatives such as structural realism, constructive empiricism, and semirealism.Overall, this book offers a strong defence of instrumentalism that will be of interest to scholars and students working on the debate about realism in philosophy of science. This book develops a new form of scientific instrumentalism, which is more sophisticated and resilient than its predecessors. The author demonstrates at length how it fits with the development of late 19th- and early-20th century chemistry and physics, and especially atomic theory. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Título
The Instrument of Science (Hardcover)
Autor
Darrell P. Rowbottom
Editorial
Taylor & Francis Ltd, London
Año de publicación
2019
Estado
new
Encuadernación
Hardcover
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
0367077450
ISBN 13
9780367077457
Serie
Libro 19 de 34: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

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