There Are No Such Things As Theories
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 March 2020
- ISBN 9780198848158
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 242x160x20 mm
- Weight 562 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
What is a scientific theory? This book considers this fundamental question by presenting a range of options and the issues they raise. It draws comparisons between theories and artworks and proposes that we should stop thinking of theories as things altogether.
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There Are No Such Things as Theories considers the fundamental question: what is a scientific theory? It presents a range of options - from theories are sets of propositions, to theories are families of models, abstract artefacts, or fictions - and highlights the various problems they all face. In so doing it draws multiple comparisons between theories and artworks: on the one hand, theories are like certain kinds of paintings with regard to their representational capacity; on the other, they are like musical works in that they can be multiply presented. An alternative answer to the question is then offered, drawing on the metaphysics of musical works: there are no such things as theories. Nevertheless, we can still talk about them, since that talk is made true by the various practices that scientists engage in. The implications of this form of eliminativism for the realism debate is then discussed and it is concluded that this may offer a more flexible framework in which we can understand both the history and the philosophy of science in general.
a bold and ambitious look at the question of what sorts of things scientific theories are—or rather, what they are not. . . . the book is a fascinating and rich contribution to the literature, and one which highly rewards being read closely
Table of Contents:
Theories as Sets of Propositions
Theories as Families of Models
Theories as Representations
Theories as Abstract Entities
Theories as Abstract Artefacts
Theories as Fictions
Theories . . . Eliminated!
Theories in History and Practice
Theories in the Realism Debate
