PHIL 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Master System, Species Problem, Local Exchange Trading System
10 May 2016
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Recall metaphysical questions (about which things exist) disgusting. The descriptive/normative distinction is important to a question we"re now. Unlike the realism issue, this essentially involves the normative issue of what we or science should do. If that descriptive view about realism were false, then the preceding normative view about what we should aim for would be false too. Another connection between the issues: the realism issue is often about unobservables: Recap of what science should aim for: accuracy, a descriptive issue (as a descriptive matter of fact). b) Again, what should the aims of science be (broken into smaller questions: descriptive question about accuracy: a) In science, is an aim for objectively accurate theories one that it is possible to achieve (can there be objectively accurate theories: kitcher says hell yes! (he"s a realist or objectivist about accuracy), descriptive question about significance: a)
