K. Brad Wray is Associate Professor at the Centre for Science Studies at Aarhus Universitet, Denmark. He has published extensively on anti-realism in philosophy of science, the social epistemology of science, and Thomas Kuhn's philosophy of science, including Kuhn's Evolutionary Social Epistemology (Cambridge, 2011).
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Introduction Part I. Against Realism: 1. The Copernican Revolution in astronomy 2. The underdetermination of theory choice by evidence 3. The argument from underconsideration 4. Epistemic privilege: another realist dogma 5. Four pessimistic inductions 6. Pessimism, optimism, and the exponential growth of science 7. The nature of radical theory change 8. Do the theoretical values really support scientific realism? Part II. Strengthening Anti-Realism: 9. But can the anti-realist explain the success of science? 10. Selection and predictive success 11. How are false theories able to make true predictions? 12. Discarded theories: the role of changing interests 13. A synthesis.
Introduction Part I. Against Realism: 1. The Copernican Revolution in astronomy 2. The underdetermination of theory choice by evidence 3. The argument from underconsideration 4. Epistemic privilege: another realist dogma 5. Four pessimistic inductions 6. Pessimism, optimism, and the exponential growth of science 7. The nature of radical theory change 8. Do the theoretical values really support scientific realism? Part II. Strengthening Anti-Realism: 9. But can the anti-realist explain the success of science? 10. Selection and predictive success 11. How are false theories able to make true predictions? 12. Discarded theories: the role of changing interests 13. A synthesis.
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