Introducción Al Realismo
Introducción Al Realismo
Introducción Al Realismo
4. Descripción y objetivos:
Objetivo general
Presentar las distintas corrientes filosóficas en torno a la discusión entre realistas y anti-
realistas para que el alumno pueda evaluar críticamente la discusión contemporánea de la
filosofía de la ciencia para poder argumentar justificadamente su propia postura.
Objetivos Específicos
Examinar los problemas que involucra la idea de la carga teórica de la observación con
respecto al realismo científico.
Revisar el origen filósofico que ha generado los diversos debates en torno al realismo
tradicional
Introducir los seis denominados ‘realismos selectivos’ para que se pueda visualizar la
problemática del realismo tradicional y se puedan detectar las nuevas líneas de
investigación que es necesario empezar a explorar.
Temas y distribución
Lecturas esenciales:
Quine, W. V. O. (1961), ‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’, From a Logical Point of View,
New York: Harper and Row.
Suppe, F. (1972), ‘What's Wrong with the Received View on the Structure of Scientific
Theories?’, Philosophy of Science, vol. 39(1): 1-19.
Lecturas optativas:
Putnam, H. (1962) ‘What Theories Are Not’, Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of
Science, E. Nagel et al. (eds.), Stanford University Press, Stanford, pp. 240-251.
French, S. and Ladyman, J., 1999. “Reinflating the semantic approach,” International
Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 13: 103–121.
Lecturas esenciales:
Brewer, W.F. and B.L. Lambert (2001) ‘The Theory-Ladenness of Observation and the
Theory-Ladenness of the Rest of the Scientific Process’, Philosophy of Science, 68(3):
S176-S186
Lecturas optativas:
Kosso, P. (1992) Reading the Book of Nature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch.
6.
Hanson, N.R. (1958) Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ch. 1
Lecturas esenciales:
Sellars, W. (1956), ‘Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind’, Robert Brandom (ed.),
Harvard University Press.; Cambridge, MA; 1997.
Lecturas optativas:
Chisholm, R. (1964) ‘The Myth of the Given’, reprinted in Epistemology: An Anthology, J.
Kim and E. Sosa (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, pp. 107-119.
Lecturas esenciales:
Lecturas optativas:
Lecturas esenciales:
Smart, J. J. C. (1963), Philosophy and Scientific Realism, London: Routledge and Kegan
Paul.
Lecturas optativas:
Boyd, R. (1984), ‘The Current Status of Scientific Realism’, in J. Leplin (ed.), Scientific
Realism, Berkeley: University of California Press
Lecturas esenciales:
Musgrave, Alan, 1988, “The Ultimate Argument for Scientific Realism”, in Robert Nola
(ed.), Relativism and Realism in Sciences, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 229–252
Lecturas optativas:
Harman, Gilbert H., 1965, “The Inference to the Best Explanation”, Philosophical Review,
74(1): 88–95. doi:10.2307/218353
Lipton, Peter, [1991] 2004, Inference to the Best Explanation, 2nd edition. London:
Routledge.
Lecturas esenciales:
van Fraassen, Bas C., 1980, The Scientific Image, Oxford: Oxford University Press, C.1.
van Fraassen, Bas C, 1985, “Empiricism in the Philosophy of Science”, in Churchland &
Hooker 1985: 245–308.
Lecturas optativas:
Psillos, Stathis, 1996, “On van Fraassen’s Critique of Abductive Reasoning”, Philosophical
Quarterly, 46(182): 31–47. doi:10.2307/2956303
Lecturas esenciales:
Wray, K. Brad, 2015, “Pessimistic Inductions: Four Varieties”, International Studies in the
Philosophy of Science, 29(1): 61–73. doi:10.1080/02698595.2015.1071551
Lecturas esenciales:
Douven, Igor, 2003, “The anti-realist argument for underdetermination”, The Philosophical
Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 200, 1 July 2000, Pages 371–375,
Lecturas optativas:
Lecturas esenciales:
Lecturas optativas:
Fine, Arthur (1984): The Natural Ontological Attitude, en Jarrett Leplin (ed.),
ScientificRealism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 83–107.
Lecturas esenciales:
Howson, Colin, 2000, Hume’s Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief,
Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0198250371.001.0001. C 1 y 3.
Magnus, P.D. and Craig Callender, 2004, “Realist Ennui and the Base Rate
Fallacy”, Philosophy of Science, 71(3): 320–338. doi:10.1086/421536
Lecturas optativas:
Jones, Roger, 1991, “Realism About What?” Philosophy of Science, 58(2): 185–202.
doi:10.1086/289611
Frigg, R. And I. Votsis (2011) ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Structural
Realism but Were Afraid to Ask’, European Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol.
1:227–276
Worrall, J. (1989) ‘Structural Realism: The Best of Both Worlds?’, Dialectica, vol. 43(1-2):
99-124.
Lecturas optativas:
Zahar, E. (1996) ‘Poincaré’s Structural Realism and his Logic of Discovery’, in J.-L.
Greffe, G. Heinzmann & K. Lorenz (Eds.), Henri Poincaré: Science and philosophy, Berlin:
Academie Verlag and Paris: Albert Blanchard.
Dennett, Daniel (1991), Real Patterns, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 88, No. 1. (Jan.,
1991), pp. 27-51.
French, Steven, 1998, “On the Withering Away of Physical Objects”, in E. Castellani
(ed.), Interpreting Bodies: Classical and Quantum Objects in Modern Physics, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, pp. 93–113
Ladyman, James and Don Ross, 2007, Every Thing Must Go: Metaphysics Naturalized,
Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199276196.001.0001
Lecturas optativas:
Floridi, L., 2008. “A Defence of Informational Structural Realism,” Synthese, 161 (2):
219-253.
Esfeld, M., 2004. “Quantum entanglement and a metaphysics of relations,” Studies in
History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 35: 601–617.
Morganti, M., 2004. “On the preferability of epistemic structural realism,” Synthese,
142: 81–107.
Lecturas optativas:
Worrall, J. (1994) ‘How to Remain (Reasonably) Optimistic: Scientific Realism and the
“Luminiferous Ether” ’, in D. Hull, M. Forbes & R. M. Burian (Eds.), PSA 1994, vol. 1
(pp. 334–342), East Lansing: Philosophy of Science Association.
6. Criterios de evaluación
Ensayo de tema a elegir 70%
Exposición 20%
Participación 10%
8. Sede
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