Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
This Element advances a novel view – the Epistemic Labour View – about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical virtues can illuminate and resolve issues surrounding actual cases of underdetermination found in scientific practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues
This Element advances a novel view – the Epistemic Labour View – about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical virtues can illuminate and resolve issues surrounding actual cases of underdetermination found in scientific practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

by Dana Tulodziecki
Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

Underdetermination and Theoretical Virtues

by Dana Tulodziecki

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This Element advances a novel view – the Epistemic Labour View – about the role, limits, and potential of the theoretical virtues as the arbiters of various versions of underdetermination. A central focus is to go beyond the often abstract discussions in this area and to show how the theoretical virtues can illuminate and resolve issues surrounding actual cases of underdetermination found in scientific practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781009278447
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 07/03/2025
Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Science
Pages: 84
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.16(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Underdetermination; 2. Underdetermination arguments and theoretical virtues; 3. The epistemic labour view of theoretical virtues; 4. Theoretical virtues and underdetermination; References.
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