Article ID: CBB001252371

Causal Warrant for Realism about Particle Physics (2012)

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Egg, Matthias (Author)


Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Volume: 43, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 259-280


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of special issue, “Philosophy of Physics”
Language: English

While scientific realism generally assumes that successful scientific explanations yield information about reality, realists also have to admit that not all information acquired in this way is equally well warranted. Some versions of scientific realism do this by saying that explanatory posits with which we have established some kind of causal contact are better warranted than those that merely appear in theoretical hypotheses. I first explicate this distinction by considering some general criteria that permit us to distinguish causal warrant from theoretical warrant. I then apply these criteria to a specific case from particle physics, claiming that scientific realism has to incorporate the distinction between causal and theoretical warrant if it is to be an adequate stance in the philosophy of particle physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Achinstein, Peter
Arabatzis, Theodore
Bunge, Mario
Cao, Tian Yu
Cordero, Alberto
Doing, Park A.
Journals
Journal for General Philosophy of Science
Science and Education
Acta Baltica historiae et philosophiae scientiarum
Foundations of Science
Perspectives on Science
Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Carocci Editore
Cambridge University Press
Kluwer Academic
MIT Press
University of Chicago Press
World Scientific
Concepts
Philosophy of science
Physics
Realism
Atomic, nuclear, and particle physics
Quantum mechanics
Mathematics
People
Bohr, Niels Henrik David
Duhem, Pierre
Eddington, Arthur Stanley
Einstein, Albert
Higgs, Peter Ware
Maxwell, James Clerk
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Japan
Institutions
Cornell University
Universität Dorpat
School of Milan
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