UD is not a DUD: a novel anti-realist account based on underdetermination

dc.rights.license	CC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisor	Dieks, D.G.B.J.
dc.contributor.author	Schipper, K.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-17T17:01:06Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-17
dc.date.available	2012-08-17T17:01:06Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	https://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/13901
dc.description.abstract	In the realism debate in the philosophy of science, anti-realist arguments based on underdetermination were once popular. This popularity has waned, but there is still merit in them. In this thesis the author proposed a novel account of underdetermination, baptized "DONUD", which the author uses to adopt an anti-realist stance based on empiricism. In further discussion the author touches upon various famous arguments in the field, and how DONUD sheds new light on them.
dc.description.sponsorship	Utrecht University
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dc.language.iso	en
dc.title	UD is not a DUD: a novel anti-realist account based on underdetermination
dc.type.content	Master Thesis
dc.rights.accessrights	Open Access
dc.subject.keywords	philosophy of science
dc.subject.keywords	realism
dc.subject.keywords	instrumentalism
dc.subject.keywords	underdetermination
dc.subject.keywords	empiricism
dc.subject.keywords	no-miracle argument
dc.subject.keywords	abduction
dc.subject.keywords	induction
dc.subject.keywords	deduction
dc.subject.keywords	Bayesianism
dc.subject.courseuu	History and Philosophy of Science