Some Difficulties for the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

2011 ◽  
Vol 78 (5) ◽  
pp. 875-886 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Ruhmkorff
Keyword(s):  
Unconceived Alternatives ◽  
Problem Of Unconceived Alternatives

scholarly journals Unconceived alternatives and another argument for instrumentalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 214-220
Author(s):  
Nikita V. Golovko
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Realism ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
Science History ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Unconceived Alternatives ◽  
Problem Of Unconceived Alternatives ◽  
Underdetermination Of Theory ◽  
Oxford University Press

Selective skepticism in relation to fundamental scientific theories and criticism of the inference to the best explanation as an eliminative approach to substantiate hypotheses, enable K. Stanford to interpret and combine in his own way the classical arguments against the scientific realism – the arguments of the pessimistic meta-induction and that of the underdetermination of theory by data. Despite the fact that his justification of the instrumentalist interpretation of scientific knowledge is just another version of the argument «from error», K. Stanford’s book should be recommended to a scientific realism could be. Reflection on the book: Stanford K. Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives. Oxford University Press, 2006.

scholarly journals Eliminative inferences and the problem of unconceived alternatives

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Rodrigues Da Silva ◽  
Daiane Camila Castilho
Keyword(s):  
Unconceived Alternatives ◽  
Problem Of Unconceived Alternatives
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