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Relates the scientific realism debate to the study of prehistory.
Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in current philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.
Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Asymmetries; 2. The colors of the dinosaurs; 3. Manipulation matters; 4. Paleontology's chimeras; 5. Novel predictions in historical science; 6. Making prehistory: could the past be socially constructed?; 7. The natural historical attitude; 8. Snowball Earth in the balance; Conclusion.
Scientists often make surprising claims about things that no one can observe. In physics, chemistry, and molecular biology, scientists can at least experiment on those unobservable entities, but what about researchers in fields such as paleobiology and geology who study prehistory, where no such experimentation is possible? Do scientists discover facts about the distant past or do they, in some sense, make prehistory? Derek Turner argues that this problem has surprising and important consequences for the scientific realism debate. His discussion covers some of the main positions in current philosophy of science - realism, social constructivism, empiricism, and the natural ontological attitude - and shows how they relate to issues in paleobiology and geology. His original and thought-provoking book will be of wide interest to philosophers and scientists alike.
Table of contents:
Introduction; 1. Asymmetries; 2. The colors of the dinosaurs; 3. Manipulation matters; 4. Paleontology's chimeras; 5. Novel predictions in historical science; 6. Making prehistory: could the past be socially constructed?; 7. The natural historical attitude; 8. Snowball Earth in the balance; Conclusion.