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Counterfactuals and Scientific RealismThe Ubiquity of Idealization and Its Logic

Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism: The Ubiquity of Idealization and Its Logic [There are three main goals that constitute the primary foci of this chapter. The first goal is to establish the groundwork of an argument for the claim that the presence of idealizing assumptions in physical theory is perfectly compatible with a suitably understood scientific realism. This goal will be pursued at length in this chapter, but the argument for this conclusion will not find its full presentation until Chapter 4. The second goal of the chapter will be to argue that idealizing theories ought to be treated as a special kind of counterfactual conditional. The third and final goal of the chapter will be to introduce a suitable logic for the regimentation of these sorts of idealizing claims and an account of their truth conditions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
ISBN
978-1-349-33906-8
Pages
47 –100
DOI
10.1057/9781137271587_3
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[There are three main goals that constitute the primary foci of this chapter. The first goal is to establish the groundwork of an argument for the claim that the presence of idealizing assumptions in physical theory is perfectly compatible with a suitably understood scientific realism. This goal will be pursued at length in this chapter, but the argument for this conclusion will not find its full presentation until Chapter 4. The second goal of the chapter will be to argue that idealizing theories ought to be treated as a special kind of counterfactual conditional. The third and final goal of the chapter will be to introduce a suitable logic for the regimentation of these sorts of idealizing claims and an account of their truth conditions.]

Published: Oct 26, 2015

Keywords: Ising Model; Actual World; Mass Point; Theoretical Claim; Empirical Implication

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