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Why the objectivist interpretation of falsification matters
Title Why the objectivist interpretation of falsification matters Author info Miloš Taliga Author Taliga Miloš 1977- (100%) UMBFF10 - Katedra filozofie
Source document Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Vol. 46, no. 4 (2016), pp. 335-351. - Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2016 Keywords filozofia - philosophy vedecké metódy logika - logic scientific methods Language English Country United States of America systematics 1 Annotation The article distinguishes between subjectivist and objectivist interpretations of scientific method, links subjectivism with good reasons, and argues its uselessness for our understanding of science. It applies the distinction to the method of falsification, explains why objectivism regards falsification to be conjectural, immune to the Duhem-Quine thesis, and immune to the problem of underdetermination. It confronts the falsifying mode of inference with the fallacy of begging the question and with the paradox of inference, and suggests how modus tollens helps scientists to find out that a tested theory is false, in spite of the fact that the falsity of the theory is asserted in its premises. Public work category ADC No. of Archival Copy 36610 Catal.org. BB301 - Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici Database xpca - PUBLIKAČNÁ ČINNOSŤ References PERIODIKÁ-Súborný záznam periodika 
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