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Reason, Social Practice, and Scientific Realism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Frederick L. Will
Frederick L. Will*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois
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Abstract

Accompanying the decline of empiricism in the theory of knowledge has been an increased interest in the social determinants of knowledge and an increased recognition of the fundamental place in the constitution of knowledge occupied by accepted cognitive practices. The principal aim of this paper is to show how a view of knowledge that fully recognizes the role of these practices can adequately treat a topic that is widely considered to be an insuperable obstacle to such a view. The topic is that of scientific realism, of the independence with respect to cognitive practices of certain objects of knowledge.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 1981 , pp. 1 - 18
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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