Perspectival Realism (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science)

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0197555640
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780197555644
• Author: Michela Massimi

Perspectival Realism begins with an exploration of how epistemic communities often resort to several models and a plurality of practices, drawing on examples from nuclear physics, climate science, and developmental psychology. Massimi explains the perspectival nature of scientific representation, the role of scientific models as inferential blueprints, and the variety of scientific realism that naturally accompanies such a view. Perspectival realism is realism about phenomena (rather than about theories or unobservable entities). This novel realist view places epistemic communities and their situated knowledge center stage. The result is a portrait of scientific knowledge as a collaborative inquiry, where the reliability of science is made possible by a plurality of historically and culturally situated scientific perspectives. Along the way, Massimi offers insight into the nature of scientific modelling, scientific knowledge qua modal knowledge, data-to-phenomena inferences, and natural kinds as sortal concepts.

Table contents:

1. The short tale of a long journey

2. The perspectival nature of scientific representation

3. Pluralism and perspectivism

4. Perspectival modelling as modelling possibilities

5. Inferential blueprints and windows on reality

6. From data to phenomena

7. Natural Kinds with a Human Face

8. The inferentialist view of natural kinds

9. Sorting phenomena into kinds

10. Evolving natural kinds

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