Genuinely new discovery transcends existing knowledge. Despite this, many analyses in
systems neuroscience neglect to test new speculative hypotheses against benchmark …

Genuinely new discovery transcends existing knowledge. Despite this, many analyses in
systems neuroscience neglect to test new speculative hypotheses against benchmark …

One of the vividly discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of science (especially
physics) is the opposition between Realism and Anti-Realism. The supporters of the first way …

Mizrahi (2017a) advances an argument in support of Weak Scientism, which is the view that
scientific knowledge is the best (but not the only) knowledge we have, according to which …

Carnap's conception of linguistic frameworks is widespread; however, it is not entirely clear
nor consensual to pinpoint what is the influence in his stance within the traditional realist/anti …

In this essay, I seek to clarify and defend a unified account of realism, ie a conception of
realism that does not only apply to philosophy of science, but also acknowledges how …

This paper presents the results of an empirical study following up on Mizrahi. Using the
same methods of text mining and corpus analysis used by Mizrahi, we test empirically a …

Scientific realists claim that the best of successful rival theories is (approximately) true.
Relative realists object that we cannot make the absolute judgment that a theory is …

Van Fraassen infers the truth of the contextual theory from his observation that it has passed
a crucial test. Mizrahi infers the comparative truth of our best theories from his observation …

This chapter explores the extent to which there is ongoing disagreement in the long-running
debate concerning scientific realism, broadly construed. On the one hand, it illustrates that …