Mostrar el registro sencillo del ítem
dc.contributor.author
Carman, Christian Carlos
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.contributor.author
Díez, José
dc.date.available
2020-02-27T20:00:51Z
dc.date.issued
2015-08
dc.identifier.citation
Carman, Christian Carlos; Díez, José; Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate; Elsevier; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; 52; 8-2015; 20-34
dc.identifier.issn
0039-3681
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/98525
dc.description.abstract
The goal of this paper, both historical and philosophical, is to launch a new case into the scientific realism debate: geocentric astronomy. Scientific realism about unobservables claims that the non-observational content of our successful/justified empirical theories is true, or approximately true. The argument that is currently considered the best in favor of scientific realism is the No Miracles Argument: the predictive success of a theory that makes (novel) observational predictions while making use of non-observational content would be inexplicable unless such non-observational content approximately corresponds to the world "out there". Laudan's pessimistic meta-induction challenged this argument, and realists reacted by moving to a "selective" version of realism: the approximately true part of the theory is not its full non-observational content but only the part of it that is responsible for the novel, successful observational predictions. Selective scientific realism has been tested against some of the theories in Laudan's list, but the first member of this list, geocentric astronomy, has been traditionally ignored. Our goal here is to defend that Ptolemy's Geocentrism deserves attention and poses a prima facie strong case against selective realism, since it made several successful, novel predictions based on theoretical hypotheses that do not seem to be retained, not even approximately, by posterior theories. Here, though, we confine our work just to the detailed reconstruction of what we take to be the main novel, successful Ptolemaic predictions, leaving the full analysis and assessment of their significance for the realist thesis to future works.
dc.format
application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
Elsevier
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/
dc.subject
GEOCENTRISM
dc.subject
NON-MIRACLE ARGUMENT
dc.subject
PTOLEMY
dc.subject
SCIENTIFIC REALISM
dc.subject.classification
Filosofía, Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia y la Tecnología
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.subject.classification
Filosofía, Ética y Religión
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.subject.classification
HUMANIDADES
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.title
Did Ptolemy make novel predictions? Launching Ptolemaic astronomy into the scientific realism debate
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2020-02-26T15:05:33Z
dc.journal.volume
52
dc.journal.pagination
20-34
dc.journal.pais
Países Bajos
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.journal.ciudad
Amsterdam
dc.description.fil
Fil: Carman, Christian Carlos. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
dc.description.fil
Fil: Díez, José. Universidad de Barcelona; España
dc.journal.title
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
![Se ha confirmado la validez de este valor de autoridad por un usuario](/themes/CONICETDigital/images/authority_control/invisible.gif)
dc.relation.alternativeid
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0039368115000436
dc.relation.alternativeid
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.04.002
Archivos asociados