From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (eBook, PDF)

From Instrumentalism to Constructive Realism (eBook, PDF)

On Some Relations between Confirmation, Empirical Progress, and Truth Approximation

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Surprisingly, modified versions of the confirmation theory (Carnap and Hempel) and truth approximation theory (Popper) turn out to be smoothly sythesizable. The glue between the two appears to be the instrumentalist methodology, rather than that of the falsificationalist. The instrumentalist methodology, used in the separate, comparative evaluation of theories in terms of their successes and problems (hence, even if already falsified), provides in theory and practice the straight road to short-term empirical progress in science ( à la Laudan). It is also argued that such progress is also func...

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