Abstract
In a recent article, Samir Okasha presented an argument that suggests that there is no rational way to choose among scientific theories. This would seriously undermine the view that science is a rational enterprise. In this article, I show how a suitably nuanced view of what scientific rationality requires allows us to sidestep this argument. In doing so, I present a new argument in favour of voluntarism of the type favoured by van Fraassen. I then show how such a view of scientific rationality gives a precise interpretation of what Thomas Kuhn thought.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| ISSN: | 0007-0882 |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 55002 |
| Date Deposited: | 14. Jun 2018 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020 13:35 |
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