ABOUT MICHELA MASSIMI’S PERSPECTIVIST REALISM
Keywords:
Clases naturales. Perspectivas. Pluralismo epistémico. Realismo Científico. Realismo Perspectivista.Abstract
In Perspectival Realism (2022), Michela Massimi seeks to make compatible two positions usually presented as irreconcilable: pluralistic perspectivism and scientific realism. It is shown that the strategy adopted by the author in pursuit of the proposed objective is unsuccessful. However, this does not imply that both positions are decidedly incompatible. We put forward an alternative proposal that allows scientific realism and pluralism to be coherently reconciled.
References
BOYD, Richard. The current status of scientific realism. In J. Leplin (ed.), Scientific Realism. University of California, 1984, pp. 195-222.
CARTWRIGHT, N. How the laws of physics lie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
CHAKRAVARTTY, A. Semirealism. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29, 1998, pp. 391-408.
__________. A metaphysics for scientific realism: Knowing the unobservable. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
__________. Scientific ontology: Integrating naturalized metaphysics and voluntarist epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
DEVITT, M. Realism and Truth. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997.
DICKERSON, A. B. Kant on Representation and Objectivity, 2004.
FRENCH, S. Models and mathematics in physics: The role of group theory. In J. Butterfield & C. Pagonis (Eds.), From physics to philosophy (pp. 187–207). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
GENTILE, N. The Scope of the Construction of Experience in Empiricist Structuralism. Principia: an international journal of epistemology, Vol 21, No 3, 2017, pp. 445-459.
__________. Estructuralismo empirista y realismo representativo en Borge, B. y Gentile, N. (eds.) y La ciencia y el mundo inobservable. Discusiones contemporáneas en torno al realismo científico. Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2020.
GIERE, R.N. Kuhn as Perspectival Realist. Topoi, 32, 2013, pp. 53–57.
HACKING, I. Representing and Intervening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
HEIDEMANN, D. Kant and the forms of realism. Synthese (2021) 198 (Suppl 13): S3231–S3252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02502-4.
HOYNINGEN-HUENE, P. Reconstructing scientific revolutions: Thomas S. Kuhn's philosophy of science. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
KANT, I. (2007). Crítica de la Razón Pura. (Caimi, M. Traductor, introducción y notas). Buenos Aires: Colihue, 2007.
KITCHER, P. Windows on Reality. Boston Review. <https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/windows-on-reality/>.
__________. The advancement of science: science without legend, objectivity without illusions. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
LADYMAN, J. What is structural realism? Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 29, 1998, pp. 409–424.
LAUDAN, Larry. A confutation of convergent realism. Philosophy of Science, 48 (1), 1981, pp. 19-49.
LOCKE, J. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Edited by Alexander Campbell Fraser. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1894.
MASSIMI, M. Three Tales of Scientific Success. Philosophy of Science 83 (5), 2016, pp. 757-767.
___________. (2018a). Perspectivism. In Saatsi, Juha (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Scientific Realism. New York: Routledge, 2017.
__________. Four Kinds of Perspectival Truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 96 (2), 2018b, pp. 342-359.
__________. Perspectival realism: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
MAXWELL, G. The ontological status of theoretical entities. In H. Feigl & G. Maxwell (Eds.), Scientific explanation, space, and time: minnesota studies in the philosophy of science (pp. 181–192). Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1962.
NAGEL, E. The Structure of Science: Problems in the Logic of Scientific Explanation. New York: Harcourt, 1961.
PANAGIOTATOU, M. y PSILLOS, S. (2023). Perspectival Realism. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. <https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/perspectival-realism/>.
PAPINEAU, D. (2023). The truth is out there. Do different perspectives lead to scientific progress? TLS Contemporary philosophy. Book Review. <https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/perspectival-realism-michela-massimi-book-review-david-papineau/>.
POINCARÉ, H. La science et l’hypothese. Paris: E. Flammarion, 1902.
POTOCHNIK, A. (2023). Critical Notice: Perspectival Realism. Philosophical Quarterly. (forthcoming).
PUTNAM, H. Philosophical papers: Mathematics, matter and method (Vol. 1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975.
__________. Reason, Truth and History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
__________. The Many Faces of Realism: The Paul Carus. Lectures. LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 1987.
SMART, J. J. C. Philosophy and scientific realism. London: RKP, 1963.
TORRETTI, R. Kant. Buenos Aires: 1980; 1967.
