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Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism
M. Shaffer
Verlag Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
ISBN 9781137271587 , 209 Seiten
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The author attempts to show that scientific realism is compatible with the presence of idealization in the sciences. His main contention is that idealized theories can be treated as counterfactuals about how things are in worlds that are similar to but simpler than the actual world.
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