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Experimental realism defended: how inference to the most likely cause might be sound

Year: 2006

Type: book

Abstract: : On a purely epistemic understanding of experimental realism, manipulation affords a particularly robust kind of causal warrant, which is – like any other warrant – defeasible. I defend a version of Nancy Cartwright’s inference to the most likely cause, and I conclude that this minimally epistemic version of experimental realism is a coherent, adequate and plausible epistemology for science. 1.

Source: London School of Economics and Political Science Research Online (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Author: Mauricio Suárez

Language: English

Topic: Philosophy of Biology and Scientific Explanation

Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología

OpenAlex ID: W1578298727

FWCI: 1.003

Cites: 21

Cited by: 5

Related to: 10