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Title: Jamin Asay
Three Paradigms of Scientific Realism
Advocates of truthmaker theory think that the enterprise of offering
truthmakers for the truths we accept is a useful regimentation of
ontological investigation. While truthmaking has been brought to bear on
several topics inside core metaphysics (presentism, universals, modality),
it has not yet been applied to metaphysical questions that arise in other
domains of philosophy. In this talk, I want to explore what insights
truthmaker theory can provide for the debate over scientific realism.
Accordingly, I consider three different approaches to scientific realism.
There is the truth-mongering approach that defines the debate over realism
in terms of the theory of truth. There is the methodological approach that
defines the debate in terms of the aim of science. And there is the
theoretic approach that defines the debate in terms of how scientific
theories are to be interpreted. My contention is that truthmaking (1) helps
us see how the truth-mongering approach is a non-starter, (2) clarifies
what is at stake in the theoretical approach, and (3) remains neutral on
the methodological approach.
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