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Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Michela Massimi, "Perspectival Realism" (Oxford UP, 2022)
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68 minutes
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Jul 11, 2022
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For many philosophers, the fact that scientists take different perspectives on the world is an obstacle to being a realist about the world. In Perspectival Realism (Oxford University Press, 2022), Michela Massimi argues that to the contrary the plurality of perspectives is the driving force behind realism. On her view, the scientific realism that emerges out of the perspectival nature of scientific representation takes perspectival models as inferential blueprints for exploring what is possible. The realist’s primitives are not essential properties, but the stable lawlike dependencies that are identified again and again from different perspectives. Massimi, who is professor of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, also shows how scientific communities develop “natural kinds with a human face”: evolving groupings of modally robust phenomena that result from historically and culturally situated systems of scientific practices. Massimi’s book constructs a new vision of what scientific realism can be that will be highly influential for years to come.
This book is available open access here.
Carrie Figdor is professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa.
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This book is available open access here.
Carrie Figdor is professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa.
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Released:
Jul 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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