HPS100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fallibilism, Scientific Realism
28 Mar 2016
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Scieniic realism: the history of science knows many examples of theories accepted then abandoned. Scieniic realism: our best scieniic theories correctly described the nature of the mind independent (external) world. Structural realism: although our theories about the natures of unobservable eniies can be false, our knowledge of the relaions between them is true. Enity realism: our knowledge about unobservable eniies is true, although our theories concerning relaions between these eniies can be false. Both structural realism and enity realism adopt a selecive approach. Selecive scieniic realism: although strictly speaking all even our best theories are dales some aspect of our best theories are true. Based on infallibism which is not accepted now. Going against fallibism this is the quesion to address if you are a fallibilism acceptance: a theory is said to be accepted if it is taken as the best available descripion of its object.
