Being realistic: the challenge of theory change for a metaphysics of scientific realism

Spontaneous Generations 9 (1):136-142 (2018)
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Chakravartty and others have pressed that the defender of scientific realism needs to supply a metaphysical story, most saliently a modal story, of how knowledge of the unobservable can be possible. Here I consider the challenge the problem of theory change poses to theories of modal metaphysics.

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Kerry McKenzie
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