Más allá de la dicotomía realismo-instrumentalismo

My main purpose is to show that (1) the standard characterization of instrumentalism (Duhem) fails to grasp adequately the complexity of the cognitive status of important scientific theories in the past, e.g. Ptolemy's astronomy; (2) that failure is closely related to certain presuppositions w...

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Main Author: Ricardo J. Gómez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 2019-01-01
Series:Crítica
Online Access:https://critica.filosoficas.unam.mx/index.php/critica/article/view/995
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