TY - JOUR
T1 - Underdetermination, Scepticism and Realism
JF - Organon F
Y1 - 2014
A1 - Koreň, Ladislav
KW - Evidence
KW - realism
KW - scepticism
KW - underdetermination
AB - This study aims to articulate and compare the structure, presuppositions and implications of two paradigmatic sceptical arguments, i.e. arguments from underdetermination of scientific theories by observational data (UA) and Cartesian-style arguments (CA) invoking sceptical scenarios of severe cognitive dislocation. Although salient analogies between them may prompt one to think that a unified diagnosis of what is amiss with them is called for, it will be argued that this may be a false hope, if those analogies do not underwrite a complete homology. That said, possible parallels of one promising anti-sceptical exposure of CA are pointed out for the case of UA, which conspire together to render the problem of underdetermination less threatening than it could at first appear.
IS - 2
VL - 21
SP - 145-167
UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/organon/2014/2/145-167.pdf
U2 - Articles
U3 - 145167
TI - Underdetermination, Scepticism and Realism
ER -