UD is not a DUD: a novel anti-realist account based on underdetermination
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In the realism debate in the philosophy of science, anti-realist arguments based on underdetermination were once popular. This popularity has waned, but there is still merit in them. In this thesis the author proposed a novel account of underdetermination, baptized "DONUD", which the author uses to adopt an anti-realist stance based on empiricism. In further discussion the author touches upon various famous arguments in the field, and how DONUD sheds new light on them.
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philosophy of science, realism, instrumentalism, underdetermination, empiricism, no-miracle argument, abduction, induction, deduction, Bayesianism