Fault-Tracing: Against Quine-Duhem: A Defense of the Objectivity of Scientific Justification

by Sam Mitchell

It is widely believed in philosophy of science that nobody can claim that any verdict of science is forced upon us by the effects of a physical world upon our sense organs and instruments. The Quine-Duhem problem supposedly allows us to resist any conclusion. Views on language aside, Quine is supposed to have shown this decisively.

But it is just false. In many scientific examples, there is simply no room to doubt that a particular hypothesis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110996782
• ISBN13: 9783110996784
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary