Exceeding Our Grasp: Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

Exceeding Our Grasp

Science, History, and the Problem of Unconceived Alternatives

2006 • 249 pages

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This volume argues that history reveals our routine failure to even conceive of well-confirmed alternatives to our scientific theories, and similar alternatives to our own theories likely remain unconceived. It shows why defences of scientific realism cannot evade the problem and proposes an alternative image of the scientific enterprise.


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