The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific RealismPaperback, 8 December 2010

The Reality of the Unobservable: Observability, Unobservability and Their Impact on the Issue of Scientific Realism
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
Part of Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Paperback)
Print Length
378 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
8 Dec 2010
ISBN-10
9048154588
ISBN-13
9789048154586

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Observability and Scientific Realism It is commonly thought that the birth of modern natural science was made possible by an intellectual shift from a mainly abstract and specuJative conception of the world to a carefully elaborated image based on observations. There is some grain of truth in this claim, but this grain depends very much on what one takes observation to be. In the philosophy of science of our century, observation has been practically equated with sense perception. This is understandable if we think of the attitude of radical empiricism that inspired Ernst Mach and the philosophers of the Vienna Circle, who powerfully influenced our century's philosophy of science. However, this was not the atti tude of the f ounders of modern science: Galileo, f or example, expressed in a f amous passage of the Assayer the conviction that perceptual features of the world are merely subjective, and are produced in the 'anima!' by the motion and impacts of unobservable particles that are endowed uniquely with mathematically expressible properties, and which are therefore the real features of the world. Moreover, on other occasions, when defending the Copernican theory, he explicitly remarked that in admitting that the Sun is static and the Earth turns on its own axis, 'reason must do violence to the sense', and that it is thanks to this violence that one can know the tme constitution of the universe.

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Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
8 December 2010
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
9048154588
ISBN-13:
9789048154586
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
378
Publisher:
Springer
Weight:
539.77 gm

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